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Characterizing thermo-mechanical treatment of laser processed NiTi shape memory alloys

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are metallic alloys which can undergo deformation and return to their original form when heated above their characteristic transformation temperature. Due to their unique properties, SMAs have found use in the aerospace, robotics, biomedical, and automotive industries, among others. Traditional SMAs are limited to one distinct transformation temperature per individual component, limiting their potential applications. Smarter Alloys Inc. has revolutionized SMAs by enabling multiple transformation temperatures to be embedded into an individual SMA component by performing laser processing of the material. However, it has been found that laser processing can have detrimental effects on the mechanical properties of SMA wires. The goal of the proposed research is to optimize treatment performed on the SMA material after laser processing to restore the material’s mechanical properties. The results of this research will improve the reliability and lifetime of products developed by Smarter Alloys Inc.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adrian Gerlich

Student:

Partner:

Smarter Alloys Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Designing and developing planning and decision-making templates to manage major contemporary Counterproductive Work Behaviours

Counterproductive Work Behaviours (CWB) are negative behaviours in the workplace that could hinder productivity and organizational effectiveness. Example behaviours are CWB violence, harassment, stealing or even drug consumption on the job. CWB cost organizations millions of dollars every year and therefore their prevention is a major priority for managers. Despite its importance, there has not been any recent research on the types of CWB occurring in today’s workplaces. Therefore, the first objective of this project is to survey employees to find out about the types of negative behaviours they see in their workplaces. Another shortcoming in the CWB literature is a lack of practical guidelines for managers to prevent and overcome CWB. The second purpose of this project therefore is to design and create decision making templates that will give managers more practical guidelines and plans to manage the most major CWB in their organizations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine T Kwantes

Student:

Partner:

Expert Insights International Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Développement de métamatériaux pour le contrôle du bruit basses fréquences

Le contrôle du bruit en basses fréquences est un enjeu important dans divers secteurs comme ceux de l’habitation, de l’environnement urbain et des transports. En général, pour atténuer le bruit basses fréquences, les matériaux acoustiques traditionnels doivent être plus épais à mesure que la fréquence diminue. Néanmoins, l’espace réservé pour ces matériaux est généralement limité à quelques centimètres. Récemment, plusieurs travaux de recherche sur les métamatériaux affluent dans la littérature scientifique acoustique, en particulier pour adresser des problématiques basses fréquences. En règle générale, ces recherches en sont encore à de bas niveaux de maturité technologique. Fort de son expertise en solutions acoustiques, Mecanum visent à agrandir son champ de compétences en intégrant de nouvelles solutions acoustiques basées sur les métamatériaux. Une des retombées visées est de développer le premier métamatériau acoustique commercialisable.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Saïd Elkoun

Student:

Partner:

Mecanum Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Étude sur les facteurs favorisant la culture de l’intelligence d’affaires et de l’analytique des PME

Depuis plusieurs années, l’évolution croissante de l’intelligence d’affaires (BI) et de l’analytique (A) a renforcé la compétitivité des entreprises, créant des disparités entre les grandes entreprises à forts moyens et les PME. Pour faire face à l’intensité concurrentielle, les PME sont contraintes de suivre les tendances technologiques en adoptant des outils BI&A toujours plus performants. Or, la réussite de l’intégration de ces outils et leur utilisation peuvent être complexes et nécessitent une culture BI&A bien bâtie. Pour répondre à ces problématiques, les facteurs favorisant le développement de la culture BI&A des PME doivent être identifiés afin d’évaluer leur influence et leur impact. Ainsi, des recommandations pourront venir soutenir et accompagner la transformation digitale et organisationnelle de ces PME par l’intermédiaire d’un outil de diagnostic. Cette recherche complète utilement les notions de culture BI présentes dans la littérature existante. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Manon Ghislaine Guillemette;Olivier Caya

Student:

Partner:

Solutions Beyond Technologies

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Monitoring cherry postharvest rot and predictive analysis

Postharvest rot of sweet cherry destined for export markets has caused significant economic losses to Okanagan growers. The major fungal pathogens causing rot have not been identified. This project will identify the two major pathogens responsible for postharvest rot in cherry during two growth seasons and characterize them with respect to temperature effects on growth and sensitivity to fungicides. Using DNA-based methods we will track the abundance of the pathogens in the orchard during the growth cycle of cherry, following major rain events and postharvest. Abundance in the orchard will be correlated with disease incidence postharvest and with weather data to begin to build an Okanagan-specific model to predict the risk of postharvest rot in sweet cherry under varying environmental conditions. This will assist growers in making efficient use of chemical controls, improve fruit quality and reduce postharvest losses.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Louise Nelson

Student:

Partner:

BC Cherry Association

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Using Machine Learning to Optimize a Workflow Management System.

Workflow management frameworks support the creation of task dependencies and make efficient use of resources while running those workloads. Typically, these tasks can be long running processes like machine learning algorithms or access data from databases. Workflow management consists of mapping tasks to suitable resources and the management of workflow execution in a cloud environment. The goal of this project is to optimize the job scheduling algorithm using machine learning techniques in a workflow orchestration framework that manage workloads across a heterogeneous system. Our proposed approach applies a machine learning algorithm to workflow event logs to learn properties of resources required to perform a task. When a new process is initiated, the trained classifier can suggest a suitable resource to undertake the specified task. Adding these features to Rubikloud’s machine learning pipeline would improve the efficiency and scalability of the existing machine learning infrastructure. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eyal de Lara

Student:

Partner:

Rubikloud Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Foam deck tiles for building and construction: developing the products formulation and extrusion processes to prevent unexpected deformation

This project is focused on the production of improved deck tiles made of foamed recycled polypropylene (PP) base mat and recycled and virgin polystyrene (PS)/ high impact polystyrene (HIPS) slats that are assembled to the base mat. The current product is available in 12” x 24” and 12” x 12” configurations in a variety of colors. This product is typically installed on high-rise balconies, house porches or decks. Recently, it was reported that the tiles tend to deform after a while. The deformation is usually in the form of center bow down. This problem is caused by combination of different effective parameters that need to be extensively investigated and solved. Combination of direct sunlight hit and additional sunlight hit from reflection of the surrounding glass surfaces provides elevated surface temperature and UV radiation cause different degrees of deformation. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chul Park

Student:

Partner:

Gracious Living Innovations Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Hydraulic Fracturing Process: Mechanics, Monitoring and Optimization

Hydraulic Fracturing or fracking has been extensively used in the extraction of hydrocarbon fuels in unconventional reservoirs. This process bears significant economic and environmental implications. The partner, ExGeo, has been providing professional services to the petroleum companies to monitor the fracking process using microseismic signals. To improve the precision of field monitoring and optimize the fracking process, this research will first try to understand the mechanics of fracking through highly controlled and fully instrumented laboratory experiments. Acoustic emission (AE) method will be used in combination with high speed optical methods to directly observe the formation of the fracture network in transparent specimens. The effects of in-situ stresses, fluid property, and borehole shape on the formation and geometry of the fracture network hydraulically induced will be established. Furthermore, the data analysis scheme for AE will be calibrated with the direct observation using the high speed optical measurements. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kaiwen Xia

Student:

Partner:

ExGeo

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an internal Credit Rating model for unrated companies / Quantitative alignment of portfolio risk against a client’s risk appetite

The first part of this project involves the development of an internal credit rating model. Credit ratings, such as those provided by credit rating agencies like S&P and Moody’s, are an important tool that measure the credit risk associated with different companies. However, as the markets expand there are an increasing number of companies where investors would like to participate, but which are not rated by these agencies. Thus, the Toronto-Dominion Bank’s Wealth division would like to create a model that can assess a company’s credit rating and compute a similar score to that of the credit rating agencies. This internal rating system would allow TD Bank’s customers to better measure credit risk with their investments. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roy H Kwon

Student:

Partner:

Toronto-Dominion Bank

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Use of biosolids in the Construction of Capillary Barrier Covers for Reactive Mine Tailings

The project aims to examine the potential for use of municipal biosolids (treated sewage solids) as a low cost construction material in the creation of solid soil capillary barrier covers (multi-layer covers that limit oxygen diffusion) to reduce acid generation in mine tailings. The ability for biosolids to prevent water flow and oxygen diffusion through the cover to the tailings will determine whether or not biosolids are suitable for use in capillary barrier covers. The project will also investigate the interactions between tailings and biosolids when they are directly in contact with one-another as is the case at the Vale tailings site in Sudbury. Research will involve computer modelling of cover design (ie. determining suitable materials and layer configurations) as well as column testing of the most promising cover designs. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Simms

Student:

Partner:

Terratec Environmental Ltd;Vale Canada Limited (Sudbury, ON);7949740 Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Foliar endophytes and their toxins in needle & stem tissue of spruce

Endophytes are fungi that live in the tissues of plants without causing damage. In return, ‘good endophytes’ provide a benefit to the plant. The best understood examples are plants with endophytes that produce toxins that increase the tolerance of the plant to insect pests. Over a very long time, some needle endophytes of conifers have been shown to improve the tolerance to the eastern spruce budworm, the most damaging forest insect pest in Canada. During periodic epidemics, this insect kills large numbers of trees in Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes and New England. Another insect that affects trees except as seedlings is the debarking weevil. This kills seedlings after planting by eating the bark. The present study is designed to determine whether the as seedlings, the fungi and their insect toxins are present in inoculated seedlings. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Miller

Student:

Partner:

Maritime Innovation Limited

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Les conditions de vie, les trajectoires d’emploi et les parcours d’aide des personnes assistées sociales au Québec au 21e siècle

L‘objectif de cette recherche qualitative est de comparer et synthétiser les éléments ayant eu une influence sur le recours/parcours à l’aide sociale et sur les facteurs favorisant – ou non – l’accès et l’intégration en emploi des bénéficiaires de l’aide social dit aptes au travail. Le caractère innovant de ce projet réside dans la prise en considération des pratiques de dotation dans le processus d’intégration en emploi. Nous souhaitons démontrer que les personnes bénéficiant de l’aide sociale même si elles n’ont pas intégré avec « succès » le marché du travail n’ont pas une éthique de travail « déficiente » (Standing 1991). Pour ensuite, proposer des solutions facilitant l’intégration de ces personnes dans la société dans une perspective de déconstruire le triptyque « préjugé, stéréotype et idéologie » et ainsi contrer les effets de la discrimination systémique. (Gagné 2017, à paraître)

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Faculty Supervisor:

Diane Gagné

Student:

Partner:

Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

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