Innovative Projects Realized

A Modular and Scalable Approach to Network Management and High-Speed Traffic Processing in Satellite Communication Systems

This project presents a novel software-centric architecture for enhancing network management and traffic processing in satellite communication networks. The architecture features a standardized communication framework enabling seamless interaction between a software-based Network Management System, traffic applications, and a new high-speed hardware processing module. This module, designed with a hybrid FPGA/CPU approach, provides high-performance modulation and coding capabilities aligned with DVB-S2X standards. The modular software and hardware design ensures flexibility, scalability, and adaptability, ultimately improving the system’s agility, performance, and efficiency.

Impact de stratégies d’additifs alimentaire sur le microbiote intestinal du poulet à griller

La gastro-entérite chez les humains est souvent causée par Campylobacter jejuni, une bactérie microaérophile Gram négative. En raison d’une forte charge de Campylobacter dans les intestins des poulets, atteignant jusqu’à 10? UFC/g, la campylobactériose est principalement attribuée à la consommation et à la manipulation de produits de volaille contaminés tels que différentes découpes de viande et les foies. De plus, dans de rares cas, l’infection peut entraîner des troubles chroniques, tels que le syndrome de Guillain-Barré, qui provoque une paralysie neuromusculaire et même la mort chez 4 à 15 % des patients. Pour limiter le risque de campylobactériose pour la santé humaine, une stratégie consiste à réduire la concentration de C. jejuni dans l’intestin des poulets de chair avant l’abattage.

Une de ces stratégie et l’emploie de phytodérivés pour contrôler la bactérie tout en modulant positivement le microbiote intestinal des oiseaux.

Les HE sont connues pour leur action antimicrobienne. À faible dose, elle ne semble pas efficace. Par contre, personne n’a encore testé chez les oiseaux si l’ajout d’huile essentielles encapsulées à très forte dose pouvait réduire la colonisation des intestins des oiseaux par Campylobacter et comment ceci impact les autres populations bactériennes du tractus digestif.

Canadian Scientist Speakers Network (CSSN)

Building on the success of version 1.0, the Canadian Scientist Network (CSN) 2.0 project aims to significantly impact the national landscape of science in Canada by amplifying the voices and profiles of diverse Canadian scientists. Under the leadership of Dr. Imogen Coe, a recognized authority in the field of inclusive excellence in science, this project seeks to elevate the visibility and accessibility of underrepresented scientists and engineers across the country.
Dr. Coe, in collaboration with a team of interns from a partnering academic institution and academic partners Dr. Mustafiz and Dr. Borden, will apply an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and accessibility lens to the development of the CSN platform. The platform will serve as a dynamic resource for highlighting diverse Canadian scientist speakers, providing them with opportunities to share their expertise on a broader scale.
The enhanced CSN platform will be instrumental in facilitating connections between these experts and a range of organizations seeking diverse perspectives in science and engineering. This initiative reflects a commitment to fostering a more inclusive and representative national scientific community, ensuring that the voices of all Canadian scientists are heard and valued.

Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring via contact lens platform

Medella Health is developing contact lenses that continuously detect blood glucose levels to better manage diabetes and improve the quality of life for diabetic patients. Patients have a difficult time monitoring and maintaining their blood glucose levels because current systems are invasive, discontinuous and do not generate the continuous feedback necessary for patients to take immediate action. This mismanagement can lead to serious immediate effects (such as seizures, fainting) and long-term effects (such as kidney failure, cardiovascular diseases and blindness), thus significantly increasing costs for the healthcare system. The IT system in the mobile device will be able to run data analytics on blood glucose data, transfer information to health care providers and most importantly, send push notifications to patients in a state of diabetic emergency (i.e. if blood glucose levels reaches a certain threshold).

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Business Analysis for Advocacy-focused, AI-Enabled, Stakeholder Relationship Management System

Legislation is a messy process, with important information generally not available to all stakeholders, a number of critical influencers and processes that are manual, and indeed “heroic” efforts required to get anything significant done. Gnowit (the partner organization) makes this much easier by tracking millions of sources of policy, legislative, regulatory and media information and automatically generating briefing for regulatory analysis and public affairs experts. However, monitoring is only one part of the process, and the partner organization would like to bring a higher level of automation to the process via the provision of central systems of records and standardized workflows. The goal of this project is to essentially design, prototype and test an advocacy focused stakeholder relationship management system, and the Interns will be tasked to carry out business analyst requirement gathering, working with real-life clients to determine key information artefacts that are critical to lobbying success, and then propose how automation and artificial intelligence can be used to support these efforts. These information artefacts can include entities such as Government/academic/trade/non-profit/media organizations, key representatives of these organization, legislation, compliance requirements, policy changes, stakeholder positions, and lobbying activities. The Intern will work with the partner organization’s team to propose automation that can capture, store and report on this information (via media monitoring, Government policy monitoring, legislative + regulation monitoring, email client integration, etc) to bring the same efficiency to GR and advocacy focused firms, that Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms have brought to sales and business development focused organizations. The Intern will need to be an expert in both business analytics as well having a deep understanding of the software engineering process to be able to carry out the required customer interviews, customer validation, requirements documentation work as well as developing an early prototype.

Market opportunity analysis for HER2 targeted cell therapy.

Precision medicine is showing great promise in the fight against cancer by selectively targeting hallmarks of cancer cells to spare normal ones. One such hallmark of cancer is the overexpression of the HER2 protein in many different types of cancer.
At Modulari-T we have developed a way to program the immune system to recognize and kill cancer cells which we call MARC cells by sensing the overexpression of HER2.
This project aims to find the optimal indication for a HER2-directed cell therapy. A thorough analysis of HER2 overexpressing cancer incidence, the current standard of care for secondary line treatment (refractory or relapsed cancer) and the patient population profile will be used to analyze the market opportunity for the different indications that the therapy could be applied to.

Secure Horizons – Building a Local Model for Cyber Resilience

This collaborative initiative between St. Clair College, Connecting Windsor-Essex (CWE), TELUS, Windsor Police Service, and Ontario Provincial Police aims to enhance digital literacy and cybersecurity awareness in the Windsor-Essex region. The project will focus on implementing the TELUS Wise program, which aims to educate various demographics—ranging from children to seniors—about online safety and responsible digital citizenship.

The project’s primary objective is to conduct a pilot study assessing the effectiveness of the TELUS Wise program at a local level. This involves delivering a tailored cybersecurity curriculum, executing a phased rollout, and conducting comprehensive research to evaluate the program’s impact on participants’ cyber hygiene and behaviour. Interns from St. Clair College will play a key role in this initiative, contributing to curriculum facilitation, data collection, and analysis. They will also gain valuable experience in cybersecurity, data analytics, and research methodologies, enhancing their professional skills and expanding their networks.

The project aims to create a replicable model for cybersecurity education that can be adapted to other regions, ultimately contributing to a more cyber-aware and secure community. The initiative also supports broader societal goals by promoting digital literacy, enhancing public safety, and fostering a culture of responsible online behaviour.

Optimisation du processus du maintien de la DEL (licence d’établissement) dans une industrie pharmaceutique générique

Ce projet de stage permettra d’optimiser le processus de maintien de la DEL (licence d’établissement) pour qu’elle reflète les sites réellement utilisés, en se concentrant uniquement sur les sites et les activités nécessaires et en évitant de payer pour des sites inutiles sur la DEL (licence d’établissement), tout en répondant aux exigences réglementaires. Selon la définition de Santé Canada, tous les établissements de produits pharmaceutiques au Canada doivent avoir une licence d’établissement de produits pharmaceutiques (LEPP) pour fabriquer, emballer-étiqueter, distribuer, importer, vendre en gros ou analyser un médicament. Il s’agit d’une exigence en vertu du titre 1A de la partie C du Règlement sur les aliments et drogues (RAD).

Real-time Garment Synthesis for Game Deployment

Cloth animation is essential in video games, but creating realistic cloth movements in real-time is challenging due to computing limitations. Traditional methods use simplified simulations combined with keyframing to manage performance and control, but these can be unstable and offer limited animator flexibility.

Our project proposes a solution using neural networks to animate garments. By leveraging the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, we model cloth dynamics as a complex spatiotemporal behaviour which cannot be modelled by traditional approaches. This involves considering the body’s shape and movement along with the garment’s properties to predict how the cloth should move.

By integrating AI-driven models, our approach promises a significant leap forward in cloth animation technology, offering a more realistic and responsive experience in video games. This innovation could transform the way cloth is animated, setting new standards in the gaming industry

Fast estimation of building stocks in the GTA for deconstruction assessment

There is a large stock of construction materials in existing built facilities, which when reaching their end of life, become a liability for their owners. The current practices of demolishing and disposing of these facilities when reaching their end-of-life generate considerable amounts of wastage and collectively can lead to landfill overuse; hence are not compliant with sustainable development goals. Retrieved materials can potentially be used in new construction (after refurbishment or recycling) or as inputs for other industries (after downcycling). This initially requires replacing building demolition practices with ‘deconstruction’ and ‘disassembly’. Given the higher costs and longer duration of deconstruction, feasibility studies and accurate planning are necessary when considering deconstruction as an end-of-life alternative. In a partnership between Adaptis Co. and Concordia University, this Accelerate project comprises four internship units and will develop fast (and approximate) methods to estimate the amount of valuable and recoverable materials in existing buildings without relying on detailed drawings and specifications. Since many older constructions lack such documents, the outcomes of this research project are expected to positively impact owners, builders, and demolition contractors. It will also offer a major contribution to the preservation and recovery of materials and resources in the building sector.

Advanced Irrigation Technologies for Sustainable Water Resource Management Strategies in Precision Cultivation of Cannabis

Efficiency of irrigation practices will become increasingly critical to both economic performance for agricultural businesses and environmental sustainability. Precision irrigation allows for reductions in resource consumption and waste products released to the environment as well as bolsters the ability for a crop-producing business to maintain consistent-market-quality production at the lowest possible cost. The efficacy or precision irrigation at producing biomass is best analyzed using the concept of water-use efficiency, which measures the amount of biomass produced per amount of water used. The use of sensor technology has the potential to create zero-runoff irrigation practices while simultaneously guiding the maintenance of optimal substrate water content for any crop. This collaboration between InnoKore Solutions and McGill University will comprise controlled studies on precision irrigation practices using tensiometers. These studies will explore the variability in rootzone water availability in globally-relevant commercial production substrates and use those data to optimize biomass production and quality of medical-grade cannabis, while simultaneously reducing water and fertilizer use by reducing wastewater production.