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Prolonged Heart Storage Using Sub-Zero Temperatures & Antifreeze Proteins

Heart transplantation depends on being able to move a donor heart from the location of harvest to the hospital where it will be implanted, and having the heart work once it is implanted. The time between excision and implantation is called the ischemic time. The safe ischemic time is about 4 to 6 hrs; hearts implanted after this interval have much less chance of survival. This safe ischemic time has not changed in > 30 years. Extending this ischemic time would allow transportation of donor hearts from longer distances, potentially increasing the number of matches between donors and recipients, thus increasing the number of transplants. In this experiment, we propose to test a novel method of storing hearts at sub-zero temperatures which should extend the time dramatically. Preliminary studies with a variety of tissues and cell lines have been very promising. This series of experiments to be supported by this grant will use a standard isolated rat heart preparation. If it proves successful, we will then test it in subsequent studies of more complex systems. The method involves the use of antifreeze proteins and other additives in a solution which will be flushed into the hearts of rats.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. Michael Adams & Andrew Hamilton

Student:

Kristin McCabe

Partner:

Cryostasis Ltd.

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Elder Financial Abuse: What role should banks and financial institutions play regarding intervention in cases of suspected financial abuse, involving power of attorney arrangements?

Elder financial abuse is a nation-wide problem that affects banks and investment firms. Many experts recognize that a large number of these elder financial abuse cases involve power of attorney arrangements (Sasha Angus, personal communication, July 2013). Ambiguity exists regarding the role of banks and financial institutions regarding this problem. OBSI regularly encounters these types  of financial abuse cases involving power of attorney arrangements. They are therefore interested in investigating the role that banks and financial institutions should play regarding intervention in cases of suspected financial abuse involving POA’s. This project will provide OBSI with clarity on this topic through research and suggested recommendations. This information will then be used to assist OBSI in both preventing and responding to these types of cases; ultimately, mitigating this issue.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jerry McHale

Student:

Kelly Watson

Partner:

Bank of Nova Scotia

Discipline:

Public administration

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Dual Phase Change Material (PCM) Integration and Optimization for Heating and Cooling Seasons

One way to improve the efficiency of a building is to use thermal storage material. A recent thermal storage strategy is to use phase change material (PCM) which allows for the storage and release of thermal energy. One of the main advantages of using PCM over traditional thermal storage (like concrete) is that PCM can achieve the same level of thermal storage as concrete while using less material. Using PCM can also reduce and delay peak load, improve thermal comfort, and reduce the overall energy consumption of a building. This thermal storage can be used to reduce cooling loads in the summer or reduce heating loads in the winter. However, PCM is not a black box, and implementing it will require careful design consideration. Computer simulations will be used to develop methods and design strategies to optimize PCM use in order to minimize operation costs and/or minimize energy load.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. Wey H. Leong & Alan S. Fung

Student:

Fabio Almeida

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Energy

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Corporate Residency Business Analyst

CarbonCure Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2007 to spur a market shift towards affordable green concrete. The company has built durable industry partnerships, with plant installations across North America. The CarbonCure innovation permanently absorbs waste CO2 into precast concrete, creating an innovative green building material and giving producers a clear competitive advantage. The Mitacs research project will primarily focus on helping transition CarbonCure's technology from a pre-commercial to a commercial phase, by providing business administration and marketing related support. The internship proponent would focus on refining existing economic models and sales processes, help increase exposure of CarbonCure through the development of communication and marketing materials, as well as provide general market intelligence support.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Dan Shaw

Student:

TBD

Partner:

CarbonCure Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Feasibility Study of a Community Microgrid: Key Components, Control and Communications

This project involves the feasibility study of specific community microgrid technologies for the development of a Smart Community in London, Ontario by SE2 Technologies Inc. A first of its kind, such a community will represent a learning platform for universities and other cities in Canada. The smart community will consist of a minimum of 50 residential units situated in London, Ontario, and will be Net ZERO energy, built electric car ready and emphasize Smart Grid technology including the demonstration of a community microgrid. The goal of the community microgrid will be to provide reliable, sustainable and efficiently power to the local community using locally produced renewable energy. This work involves a necessary first step in assessing the feasibility of critical technologies for the community microgrid design. Three aspects are investigated: 1) the identification of key system components, 2) the development of aspects of a control platform, and 3) research of the best in class communication network. Currently, in Phase I of the plan, SE2 is conducting a broad study to determine the best in class technologies and designs at the building and community level. This project contributes to the feasibility study of microgrid control and communications system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Deepa Kundur

Student:

Abdallah K. Farraj

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

The One Love Network: Examining Customers’ Satisfaction and Loyalty in a Charity-Based Reward System

The goal of the current proposal is to evaluate the effectiveness of a rewards program that incorporates social responsibility into the product/service purchase. Whereas other reward programs provide the reward to the program member, this program instead allots a part of the purchase to the member to later donate to a charity of their choice (that must be connected with the program). This rewards program is a novel approach to creating customer loyalty and satisfaction. It is proposed that the novel nature of this reward program will create more satisfied customer because they will want to earn rewards instead of feeling obligated or that they have to. Moreover, this affective commitment (i.e., want to) is proposed to also influence customer spending behaviour by increasing the average amount they spend per purchase. These findings will help provide initial support for the partner organization to demonstrate that their reward program is advantageous to consumers, organizations, and society through charitable giving.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Natalie Allen

Student:

Hayden Woodley

Partner:

One Love Network

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancement of the Performance of the Prefail’s Implant Health Monitoring System

This research and development project intends to improve the performance of a dental implant stability measurement (ISMS) device made by Prefail Dental Solutions Inc. The technical improvements proposed by this project includes (i) developing an impeoved and reliable signal processing technique, (ii) designing a calibration unit, (iii) designing a new tip for the ISMS clinical application, and (iv) fine-tuning the parameters in the quotient calculation algorithm of the ISMS. Clinical tests will also be conducted at two stages along with the laboratory improvement experiments that are planned to make the final version of hardware and software of ISMS. The feedback from dentists and patients and human test data will also be used to improve the performance of the final ISMS. The outcome of this project will help Prefail to have a device which is ready for commercialization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. Siamak Arzanpour & Babk Chehroudi

Student:

Ahmed Ballo

Partner:

PreFail Dental Solutions Inc.

Discipline:

Dentistry

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Aircraft optimization and sizing methodologies

The proposed research project concerns the development of optimization tools and sizing methodologies used to assess optimal structural airframe configurations and aerodynamic lines for given business cases. A PDF intern will be in charge of proposing improved optimization strategies, mainly related to composite material, and of adding specific capabilities inside the internally developed sizing tool (LibStress) with the aim to increase the reliability and accuracy of the optimization models. In addition to these tasks, the PDF will have to help coach Master’s students that are part of the development team. A PhD intern will work on the improvement of the efficiency and robustness of an optimization method used for aero-structural applications. One Master’s intern will be in charge of further developing an internal tool (WiSPER) related to the prediction of wingbox weight and stiffness used for the conceptual aircraft optimization phase. The second Master’s student will lead a comparative study highlighting the value of using alternative finite element method (FEM) tools that better address the optimization framework needs and constraints. The third Master’s student will take part in an optimization project related to specific wing components (i.e. ribs and spars). Finally, the fourth Master‘s student will evaluate the optimization algorithms employed in the conceptual MDO environment and recommend best practices and/or propose or develop improved algorithms. For instance, tuning of the algorithmic parameters can be considered by means of nonsmooth optimization techniques. Bombardier Aerospace (BA) will benefit from these Mitacs internships by quickly improving the optimization tools that are currently under development. These tools will enable BA to develop a high-quality Next Generation Business Jet (NGBJ) using state-of-the-art tools for exploring the design space.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. Daniel Therriault & Dominique Orban

Student:

Mohammad-Hadi Mahdavi & TBD

Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Validating RSK as a molecular target for the treatment of cancer

Relapses in cancer usually result in the tumour becoming resistant to chemotherapy. This leaves a treatment gap that needs to be filled for these patients. One such cancer is triple negative breast cancer, this type of breast cancer is very aggressive with a high death rate. Dr. Sandra Dunn’s research group want to find new drug targets which we can then find drug inhibitors to use in cancer treatment. One such drug target is the protein RSK, this protein has been implicated in causing drug resistance and giving patients expressing this protein in their tumours a poor prognosis. We currently want to test the concept that inhibiting RSK2 in triple negative breast cancer cells will reduce growth and make previously drug resistant cells sensitive to chemotherapy again.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Sandra Dunn

Student:

Nicole Couto

Partner:

Centre for Drug Research and Development

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Study of potential technologies for Net-Zero Housing

With the escalating global warming and its detrimental effect on the environment, there is an urgent need to reduce fossil fuel burning to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings are one of the large energy consumers and their contribution to the global greenhouse gas emissions needs to be reduced. Net Zero Energy Homes generate the energy that they consume. Equally important consideration is the Net Zero Water where the water consumption is equal to water production. For sustainable housing, it is very crucial to achieve Net Zero consumption in both Energy and Water. The proposed projects are focused on studying potential technologies for Net Zero Housing that would contribute to achieve Net Zero consumption in both energy and water. One project is focused on thermal energy storage technologies that are very crucial to integrate solar energy for heating applications. The second project is focused on exploring off-grid water systems and the utilization of renewable energies in these water systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Kamran Siddiqui

Student:

Abul Bashar & Mona Hassanzadeh Jobehdar

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Energy

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Passive magnetic method to inspect corrosion of reinforced concrete

Non destructive testing (NDT) methods are way to assess health condition of structures and infrastructures like bridges, underground pipelines, and buildings. Different kind of physical properties of material are basis of NDT methods. The most important of these properties are wave’s velocity, electrical conductivity, electro-magnetic, and magnetic properties. Magnetic property is especial characteristic for such kind of metals which their name is ferromagnetic material. Iron and steel are main ferromagnetic materials for making infrastructures. Reinforced concretes are main part of infrastructures which steel bars placed inside the concrete to increase its strength. When there is a fine crack, influenced water make bars corroded. Corrosion will decrease concrete strength, and also corroded bars inside the concrete are invisible. It is not possible to detect them by visual methods. Proposed research project is a NDT method based on magnetic property of metals to detect corrosion of bars inside the concrete.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. Giovanni Cascante & Maurice B. Dusseault

Student:

SeyedBijan Mahbaz

Partner:

Speir Hunter Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Integration of Technologies for Smart Control of Micro Grids

S2E Company is developing a Smart Community in London, Ontario. This community will have the state of the art sustainable practices in community development. This community will be Net ZERO energy which simply means that it has zero net energy consumption and zero carbon emissions annually, minimize water usage, designed with sustainable storm water management, built electric car ready, emphasis Smart Grid technology and demonstrate a microgrid. Smart grid is a new generation of electrical grids that uses information and communications technology and works in an automated manner to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity. Microgrid is a set of interconnected consumers and distributed energy resources that has clear electrical boundaries, can be controlled independently with respect to the main grid and can connect and disconnect from the grid to enable it to operate in both grid-connected or free standing mode. It is evident that smart/micro grid is the backbone of this Net Zero community. The proposed study, as its objectives have been outlined above, will focus on control practices and schemes related to this micro grid, which at the end, will provide the industry partner with required information both for feasibility study stage and later on during deployment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Kaamran Raahemifar

Student:

Ramyar Rashed Mohassel

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

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