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13270 Completed Projects

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Incorporating Same-Day Delivery into Retail Industry

Due to a lack of legitimate case studies exploring the same-day delivery, this internship will help by adding significantly to the body of applied research in this new trend. Courier industry can revamp the practices of "brick and mortar" retailers by convincing them to cover the cost for their customers in return for value-added service. However, no one truly understands the longevity and feasibility of this service aimed to improve customer satisfaction. Therefore, it is crucial to explore the size of the market, the barriers to entry, and consumer as well as retailer perceptions for benefits and costs of the trend. Such changes for the retail industry also put pressure on smaller courier companies, such as Novex Couriers, to innovate or face extinction in the future. The internship will ensure that Novex can successfully form partnerships with local retailers and therefore support the overall community in its operations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. James Tansey

Student:

Evguenia Hart

Partner:

Novex Couriers

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Service industry

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

FPGA-based Vector Processors for Compute Acceleration

Modern systems are increasingly being made “digital” and interconnected to the rest of world through computers. Many types of sensors, such as image sensors or digital radios, can produce vast amounts of data in a short amount of time. Rather than sending all of this raw data back to a central server, it is usually more efficient to deploy an embedded system close to the sensor that can inspect, analyze, compress, and otherwise reduce the data into a more compact, meaningful form. This allows the device to not only be smart and aware of its function, but also to save on energy and communications costs. This research project involves the design of a new type of computer processor that is optimized to perform this type of data processing in the embedded environment. The objectives are to provide higher performance, expanded capability, and easier methods of programming the processor.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Guy Lemieux

Student:

Aaron Severance

Partner:

VectorBlox Computing Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Sanitation: Enabling sustainable community change in riverine communities of the Niger Delta, Nigeria

The Niger Delta in southern Nigeria has a population of over 30 million people, over half of whom live under the poverty level. Their health is significantly impacted by poor sanitation, which affects their ability to work, attend school, and improve their quality of life. Villages are sprinkled throughout a region of rivers, and creeks, islands, and mangrove forest, off the power grid, and only accessible by water. Generally latrines empty directly into the water, close to where villagers bath and wash clothes. There is no apprehension of the health implications. Nigeria is not doing well in improving sanitation for its citizens. This project is intended to provide guidance on effective and sustainable ways to improve sanitation for the many living in the riverine villages by examining attitudes and beliefs by villagers, reviewing literature and theoretical frameworks, and developing useful tools that can be applied by local NGOs. The results will inform approaches to development in this sector which is of great interest to the partner organization, a development consulting company. The internship with this company will include developing and publishing a handbook on promising practices in sanitation improvement for development practitioners and communities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Leslie King

Student:

Nancy Gilbert

Partner:

Fantan Group Inc.

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

University:

Royal Roads University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a molecular assay for determining the number and viability of vaccine organisms

This project is designed to evaluate/test the viability of commercial live coccidial poultry vaccine. The efforts will be made to enumerate individual species within a mixture of several to many vaccine species. The current research revolves around viability-qPCR that may be able to simultaneously amplify and quantify parasites in a variety of samples and concentrations. . The viability/qPCR to detect and quantify species complexes in a cost-effective manner would be useful for vaccine quality control. The ability to test samples for viability in vitro (in addition to quantifying the agents present) is of direct interest to vaccine manufacturers as well as diagnostic laboratories within Canada and globally

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. John R Barta

Student:

Mian Abdul Hafeez

Partner:

CEVA

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating the “Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation” framework: A case study of the Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable management plan

The Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable is collaboratively developing a watershed management plan for the lower Coquitlam River, using the “Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation” framework. Developed by the Conservation Measures Partnership (a group of international NGOs), this framework is intended to guide the design and implementation of conservation projects using an integrative approach and an adaptive management cycle. Although the Open Standards framework is being used to develop conservation projects in several settings in North America, it remains unknown whether the framework will successfully achieve the goals of sustainable water resource management and address uncertainty when implemented at the watershed scale by community-based organizations. The purpose of this research is to determine if the application of the “Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation” framework by the Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable will achieve the goals of the roundtable and the goals of sustainable water resource management. This research project will benefit the City of Coquitlam as results will lead to a set of recommendations geared towards improving the draft watershed management plan. Recommendations will assist the roundtable in the development of a sustainable watershed management plan which will encourage integration, innovation and improve the capacity of the Coquitlam River watershed to respond and adapt to unpredictable challenges, threats, and opportunities posed by climate change.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Murray B. Rutherford

Student:

Gillian Fielding

Partner:

City of Coquitlam

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Chart:Public Art Marpole 2.0

chART: Public Art Marpole 2.0 is a continued exploration into a specific community and its potential relationship to public art as an agent of change. This research internship examines the community of Marpole – its history, inhabitants, and community – through artistic practice and creative research methodologies. Utilizing interviews, questionnaires, ethnographic methods, creative art practice, and participant action research, the research aims to understand how this community benefits from public art. The internship will gather qualitative and quantitative data about the impact of public art on industry and community and its usefulness in cultivating a relationship between the two; the project’s findings can then be applied to further research and development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Cameron Cartiere

Student:

Jill Banting

Partner:

Marpole Business Association

Discipline:

Sector:

University:

Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a 3D Laser Scanning System for Generating Prototypes of Buildings and Large Scale Structures

Virtual Prototypes provide a fast and efficient way to visualize objects or products during their design phase. In architecture, engineering and various construction projects 3D models are used throughout process, from design, through construction, and into the facility management phase. An accurate 3Dscan could represent a built region in a virtual world. The 3D model development has been an upcoming area, however rarely studied for improvements of this technology. The objective of the current study is to develop a methodology to conduct scans on buildings and generate 3D models that could be used to create prototype models using the 3D print technology. It is intended through the current project to develop a methodology to construct a 3D prototype model of a large scale objectm through laser scanning technology. The entire process involves several different stages including, scanning, point cloud generation, point cloud registration, point cloud data analysis, mesh and surface generation and rapid prototyping of the 3D model. It is also intended to demonstrate the use of existing technology to scan a complex 3D object and develop an actual prototype of this object.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Nicholas Krouglicof

Student:

Migara Livanage

Partner:

ND Dobbin Group

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

The Search for Unconventional Ores at the Sudbury Structure: Offset Dyke and Sudbury Breccia-Hosted Deposits

The Ni–Cu ores of the Sudbury region were first discovered in 1883. Since then, Sudbury has grown to be the richest mining district in North America. Sudbury represents the site of a meteorite impact structure originally greater than 200 km in diameter and that formed 1.85 billion years ago. Despite the proven and potential economic benefits of resource development at Sudbury, there are still major outstanding questions concerning our understanding of the structure and its ore deposits, in particular the Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. This proposal seeks to further the understanding of the origin and emplacement of so-called Sudbury Breccia and Offset Dykes that will enable new exploration strategies for finding new deposits in the large, relatively unexplored properties owned by Wallbridge Mining Company Limited.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Gordon R. Osinski

Student:

Eric Pilles,Adam Coulter & Denise Anders

Partner:

Centre for Excellence in Mining & Technica Mining

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

From Hammers to Homes: a housing development report for Metro Vancouver

The From Hammers to Homes project seeks to engage one masters student intern for two semesters to work with the partners in order to design a new database and conduct a new annual survey to report on improving the quality and transparency of information on the residential development environment in regional Vancouver’s municipalities. The intern will conduct survey, interview, secondary and case study-based research, consultation across the spectrum of interests in housing policy and development issues in metropolitan Vancouver, and will construct and maintain a unique database. The Greater Vancouver Home Builders Association expects to benefit from this project that will help the hands holding the hammers to build the housing that our region needs, recognizing the vital role of a predictable and accountable municipal policy process, not for developers and municipalties to “hammer” each other with problems, but to move residential development in the direction of the public interest, affordability, innovation and sustainability.

 
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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Meg Holden

Student:

Terry Sidhu

Partner:

Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Fiber Optic Temperature Sensors: Phosphor Deposition and Processing Improvements

Photon Control Inc. is a Burnaby, British Columbia company that designs and manufactures a wide range of optical sensors & instruments to measure temperature, pressure, position, and flow in the semiconductor, oil and gas, power, life science, and manufacturing industries. The operating principle of many of their products is based on the optical response of phosphor materials and are well suited to applications in harsh environments. Photon Control is currently seeking to improve the lifetime of their optical sensors by improving the quality and methods of deposition of their phosphor materials. Our research group has the infrastructure and expertise required to deposit and to protect these materials in robust thin film form on substrates of various size and shape, in order to address these material deposition challenges. This project will complement our current research efforts and allow Photon Control to achieve performance improvements in their optical sensor systems, providing extended lifetime in their current applications, as well as extending their range of applications to include high temperature environments, where there is a demonstrated need.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Gary Leach

Student:

Xin Zhang

Partner:

Photon Control

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization of Mont-Wright open pit mine planning and design using an integrated Geostatistical-Geomechanical approach

This research project aims to develop an integrated geostatistical-geomechanical approach to address the spatial distribution of rock mass mechanical properties, for use in optimization of Mont- Wright open pit mine planning and design. This approach allows a better understanding of rock mass conditions based on limited sampling locations. The methodology would allow the inherent heterogeneity of rock masses to be taken into account in mine planning and design, on the understanding that more accurate knowledge of the spatial distribution of rock mass mechanical properties promotes safe and economic mine design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Kamran Esmaeili

Student:

Hesameddin Eivazy

Partner:

Arcelor Mittal Mines Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

CFD Analysis of the Microsys Cold Gas Inflation System

Microsys is a Mississauga company that designs and sells specialized test equipment to airbag manufacturers worldwide. The Cold Gas Inflation System (CGS) allows these manufacturers to test the inflation characteristics of airbag systems in a simple, safe, and inexpensive manner. The CGS involves the rapid discharge of a compressed gas, which the company would like to better understand, in order to further develop this system. The proposed research is to use state-of-the-art flow simulation software to examine the flow in the CGS, to predict inflation rates and pressures, to assess the role of various geometric features within the CGS on the performance of the system, and ultimately to allow Microsys to improve its design and further distinguish its product from those of competitors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Markus Bussmann

Student:

Shongleng You

Partner:

Concept Tech Group

Discipline:

Aerospace studies

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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