Innovative Projects Realized

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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Engineering
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Engineering - biomedical
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Hybrid Small UAV Powerplant

An analysis is to be conducted to investigate the integration of a hybrid power system for a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A hybrid power system is proposed as a substitute to the existing batteries to enhance the endurance of UAV systems. A UAV with flexible PV‐panels and a proton exchange membrane fuel cell is to be modeled. UAV propulsion tests are to be conducted to determine the required electrical power. The required power is to be used to determine the endurance of the UAV with the hybrid power system. This endurance enhancement is a novel design that can result in reduced operating cost for the UAVs. The partner organisation can benefit from it as they intend to expand their business. This new development in the UAV can expand the partner organisation’s customers and the market potential.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ibrahim Dincer

Student:

Sayem Zafar

Partner:

Mono Lights Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Energy

University:

Ontario Tech University

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of suitability and feasibility of home dialysis – An Evaluation to enhance capacity planning

Chronic Kidney Disease can require patients to undergo dialysis or transplantation as treatment options. Ontario Renal Network (ORN) is responsible for setting the strategic direction of services, their aim is to improve the quality of life of every patients. The project will try to define suitability criteria for home dialysis patients by analyzing historic patient data. Once factors affecting suitability are discovered, the success score for each patient can be developed. This analysis can then be applied to new incoming patients. This can then assist the ORN to allocate resources more appropriately and also to test and set viable potential targets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Mike Carter

Student:

Azadeh Mostaghel

Partner:

Cancer Care Ontario

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

An Analysis of Power Pole Foundation Conditions

The purpose of the research project is to identify the main soil types found within the FortisBC Electric service territory and identify the best alternatives for power pole installations within each soil type. This information will be made readily available to power line designers for use when selecting the foundation alternative during the design process. The large number of power poles installed each year has created a need to streamline the design process and installation cost. This project was proposed to address most typical foundation situations which may be encountered during the installation of power poles and therefore reduce the design and installation costs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. Rehan Sadiq & Shahria Alam

Student:

Mandana Ghanyei

Partner:

FortisBC

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Establishment, characterization, and directed differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells for the improved treatment and understanding of pediatric brain tumors

Brain tumors occur in one out of each four children diagnosed with cancer. Sadly, these kids are less likely to survive their disease than those diagnosed with blood cancers. The kids that do survive brain cancer often suffer from side effects of treatment, which can hamper their ability to succeed later in life. Thus, the greatest challenges facing a child with a brain tumor are: (1) the detection and successful treatment of their disease; and (2) the protection of their future quality of life. Our research goal is to eventually improve the lives of children diagnosed and treated for brain cancer by developing cellular technologies that enable the prediction and amelioration of toxicities to normal cells that may occur in children as a result of the aggressive treatments for brain tumors. These cellular technologies will also enable us to learn more about the biology that underlies the normal growth and development of neural stem cells, so we can better recognize and treat disorders, like cancer, that result when normal development is disrupted.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Christopher Maxwell

Student:

Marisa Connell

Partner:

BC Children's Hospital

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Passive treatment of mine-impacted waters in cold climate: enhancement of metal removal from cold waters by biological-chemical processes in anaerobic packed-bed bioreactors

Increasing mining activities in northern Canada involve significant environmental remediation work in cold-climates. The industry, including Alexco Resource Corp, is currently looking at new passive water treatment technologies, requiring low operation and maintenance cost and providing sustainable solution for the management of mine-impacted waters. This project, realised with the help of the Cold Climate Innovation centre, will focus on the selection of appropriate substrates to be used in passive bioreactors in northern Regions, where the climate can be challenging for water treatment operations. The research proposed includes operation of pilot-scale bioreactors, microbial characterisation and metals speciation. The substrate will be assessed not only for its capacity to support bacterial growth, but also for its metal sequestration capacity, through sorption mechanisms (less temperature-dependent, effective at low temperature). This novel approach will help development of appropriate bioreactors, effective and adequately fitted for operation in challenging climates.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jean-François Blais

Student:

Guillaume Nielsen

Partner:

Alexco Resource Corp.

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

Université INRS

Program:

Accelerate

Conductance detectors using microfabricated electrodes

Universal NanoSensor Technologies (UNS-Tech) develops and commercializes microfabricated conductivity detectors. In this MITACS cluster, UNS-Tech will partner with Prof. Young-June Kim to test UNS-Tech’s patented silicon microchip conductance detectors and to explore new detector architectures based on micro- and nano-patterned thin metal films. The results will be analyzed and the findings will be published in scientific journals. Interns participating in this cluster will benefit from this internship by gaining tremendous knowledge of electronics-based detectors. Working in a start-up environment will provide interns with an invaluable experience and enhance their training as highly qualified personnel as they prepare to enter the Canadian work force. UNS-Tech – an Ontario-based start-up – will benefit by demonstrating a proof-of-principle application of its silicon-based detector technology and exploring new phenomena in metal film-based architectures for potential application. Achieving successful proof-of-principle tests in a university setting and publishing the results would be critical benchmarks for UNS-Tech before moving onto product development of beta phase products and, thereafter, successful commercialization will require employing more Ontarians and will, in turn, benefit both Ontario and Canada. The supervisor will benefit by receiving funding that will enable him to mentor students and publish papers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Young-June Kim

Student:

Alexander Su, Monique Tie, Hassan SeifiFini & Andreea Lupascu

Partner:

Universal NanoSensor Technologies (UNS – Tech)

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of High Efficiency Compact Recuperators

Distributed Power Generation (DPG) offers a novel approach to reduce power losses. Micro-turbines (MT) are instrumental in the development of a high efficiency DPG system. The major drawback is the associated wasted heat. Increasing the viability of DPG is directly linked with the development of higher efficiency MTs. MTs equipped with a recuperator preheating the inlet gas using the heat recovered from the hot exhaust gases have the potential to reach over 50% thermal efficiency. To this end, a new method for producing recuperators has recently been developed by Brayton Energy Canada. The overall program objective is to further develop economical and practical solution for the commercial implementation of recuperators using the Cold Spray process to produce high performance external fins and different materials for the recuperator core in order to be used commercially by Brayton Energy Canada. The program specifically targets issues that have been identified by Brayton as leading edge/disruptive applications. It is envisioned that the technologies developed through the program will quickly be implemented by Brayton Energy Canada and its partners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. B. Jodoin

Student:

Yannick Cormier, Philippe Dupuis, Aslan Farjam & TBD

Partner:

Brayton Energy Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Data Anonymization for Medical Records

Data anonymization focuses on removing any personal or other information that would identify an individual or a set of persons from a given collection of records. In addition, anonymization should also mask information that could potentially be combined with other publicly available data to reidentify the individuals. This project aims to study data anonymization for medical records, particularly pertaining to radiology reports that are generated through use of particular software. The project involves the following steps i) identify the information that need to be masked by studying a random subset of data sampled from the database, ii) develop or adapt the existing off -the-shelf tools for individual NLP components such as identifying the grammatical tag of words, recognizing multi-word named entities, handling ambiguities etc., iii) integrate the individual components into a full system and evaluate the performance of the components as well as the end-to-end system and iv) implementing a process flow for anonymizing medical records including the structured tables in the records database. We also like to preserve the complete medical history of individuals as also retaining their links to individual physicians and medical technicians, suitably anonymizing the information. The expert industrial partner will identify the information that required to be masked and will work closely with the academic team in evaluating and ensuring the privacy compliance of the anonymization process flow that would be deployed in the partner organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Anoop Sarkar

Student:

Baskaran Sankaran

Partner:

McKesson Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

The Automation of System Assembly Recognition

Traditional 3D reverse-engineering and prototyping involves 3D modeling and manual parts recognition. With the advent of 3D scanning technologies, it becomes possible to automate this workflow. This research internship aims at creating a novel mechanism to automate the process of assembly recognition, as part of a new workflow of 3D interactive prototyping. The research will be focused on technologies and algorithms suitable for volume graphics model. Research topic includes 3D shape matching, alignment and recognition. Prototypes will be built to verify and evaluate the research results.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Karan Singh

Student:

Jiaqi Han

Partner:

NGRAIN Corporation

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

The Smile Epidemic: Investigating the Impact of a Digital Social Media Gratitude Intervention

Research shows that keeping a gratitude journal can enhance well-being. The Smile Epidemic Inc. is a start-up company that has developed a digital, photographic social media update on the traditional (private, written) gratitude journal. The Smile Epidemic invites people to express in a few words what made them happy or grateful that day, and to take a photo of that message. People can them post the photos in an online community (see www.thesmileepidemic.com) and share via other social media (e.g., facebook). This updated gratitude journal has the potential to combine the demonstrated benefits of gratitude journaling with the benefits of social support, community acceptance and sharing. The Smile Epidemic is committed to taking an evidence-based approach to developing and improving their positive psychology products. The research goal is to understand whether, how, and for whom The Smile Epidemic enhances happiness, and the mechanisms that explain how it works. A postdoctoral researcher and three interns will conduct three research projects – first testing the basic intervention, next testing it in the workplace, finally implementing and testing new interventions based on the most recent scientific models of human flourishing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Anne Wilson

Student:

Scott Leith, Cindy Ward, Vanessa Buote & TBD

Partner:

Smile Epidemic

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of organic anti-icing agents for winter maintenance of transportation facility

Considering the facts that road salts pose significant environmental impacts and infrastructural damages, this research will evaluate the organic products for snow and ice control for transportation facilities. An extensive field tests will be conducted focusing snow melting performances of the organic liquids over regular bine over an expected ranges of weather and other external variables in a parking lot in the winter season. While the tests will be conducted in parking lots settings, the results can equally be used for other transportation facility (i.e., roadway maintenance) after adjusting of the facility specific factors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Liping Fu

Student:

Faranak Hosseini

Partner:

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Development of a Secure and Reliable Online Platform for Real-Estate Transactions

The primary objective of the project is to investigate, design and prototype a secure and reliable online tool that enables real-estate buyers to pay deposits on real-estate transactions electronically via credit or debit card. In addition, it will allow real-estate brokers to log in and view transaction statistics. The tool will provide a user friendly online form to accept buyer’s input from any devices (laptops/desktops/tablets/smartphones). The buyer data will be sent to the ExactDeposit server for further processing. The credit card and brokerage information will be sent to a 3rd party gateway for payment processing once the data filtering has been completed. This system will give the realestate buyer – a secure, yet simple and flexible means of sending deposit funds and give participating brokerages the ability access transaction statistics. The project will be a crucial part in the partner organization’s road to commercialization of the product. The proposal has the potential to train valuable HQP in the areas of software integration technologies and cutting edge research in secure and reliable communication protocols.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Srinivas (Srini) Sampalli

Student:

Saurabh Dey & Deepika Agarwal

Partner:

Exact Deposit Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

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