Innovative Projects Realized

Victoria green economy

The proposed research is a collaboration between Vancity, the City of Victoria, and the University of Victoria to bring together the necessary information (financial, regulatory, and knowledge, respectively) to build a plan that will initiate Victoria’s Green Economy. Interns will be part of distinct interviewing panels that will research the needs, benefits, and obstacles of the development of a green economy. With that necessary information the interns will collaborate with the industry partners to devise strategic plans that would lead to a roadmap of how a green economy can be developed in Victoria. The major work will be to identify the drivers of a green economy and then how those drivers can be advanced in Victoria. This research has yet to be done in Canada and will serve to complement sustainability work done on the environment with a focus on the economic drivers. 

Student placement project: Mobile solution

Catalytic pyrolysis of biomass for bio-oil utilization

Study of plug flow regime fluid dynamics

EMR clinical decision-making application for Hamilton health sciences chronic pain centres

Performing thermo-viscoelasticity measurements using RheoSpectris C400

Development of intelligence system for enhancement of automatic recognition and classification of normal and abnormal cells of human blood images

Locator/IP separation protocol for BCNET services

The development of a safety assessment model for spent nuclear fuel disposal with special emphasis on radiolytic corrosion of the copper fuel waste container

The project will involve a partnership between the Western University, where the intern is enrolled in the Chemistry PhD program, and the Surface Science Western (SSW). The SSW is a commercial organization which does contract research and problem-solving for industrial companies and is contracted to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) to support the development of corrosion models for copper waste containers. The intern will participate in tasks related to the development of performance assessment models for nuclear waste disposal, particularly on the justification that radiolytic corrosion will not threaten container integrity. The generation of a model to assess the influence of radiolysis is a part of the contracted research to NWMO. In addition, he will interact with the experimental research program designed to generate the data base required to develop and validate such a model. By participating in the project, the intern will widen his understanding of the waste management safety assessment process and develop his computational modeling skills. The NWMO will benefit from the partnership by addressing specific technical topics of interest to them and contribute to their goal of developing effective working relationships with Canadian universities.

Gold mineralization at the Engineer Mine, northern British Columbia: Its causes and consequences for local and regional gold exploration

Testing and additional development of a novel web application (prototype) for capture and analysis of production data from Canadian and international fish culture operations

Investigation of sustainable community-based strategies for the mitigation of the environmental effects of oil sands tailings ponds