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The Dramaturgy of Education: Digital and Textual Avenues for Stratford Festival Student Enrichment

The post-doctoral fellow will act as an academic liaison between the Stratford Festival’s Education Department and the University of Waterloo, including contributing to the Games Institute’s joint project on a series of Shakespeare-themed video games and apps, academic support for future Festival artistic endeavours, and development of the Education Department’s distribution materials. The Festival will benefit from a development of new games, collection of metadata, and dramaturgical support. This project also offers numerous scholarly products as output, including a growing partnership between the Stratford Festival and the University of Waterloo, a collection of research articles, transferable tagging protocols and ongoing interface design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jennifer Roberts-Smith

Student:

Toby Malone

Partner:

Stratford Festival

Discipline:

Performing arts

Sector:

Sports and recreation

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Automatic Segmentation of SCG Signal for Ischemic Patients

Research has shown that by monitoring the vibration of the heart using a simple sensor mounting on the human chest, the mechanical characteristics of heart can be measured. The purpose of this research is to design software that can automatically find some important points on the SCG signal. The software will be used to find hemodynamic parameters of the heart that will be used for diagnosis of ischemic heart patients. The outcome of this project is anticipated be extremely beneficial for both academia and the company. By successful completion of this project, multiple publications and patents will help improve the field of cardiac engineering.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Carlo Menon

Student:

Farzad Khosrow-khavar

Partner:

Heart Force Medical Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Cooperative Primary Healthcare Data Sharing and Analytics Network Infrastructure

An increasing number of primary health care clinics have made the transition from paper-based record keeping to computer-based patient information systems, so-called electronic medical record (EMR) systems. One advantage of using EMRs is that data becomes more readily accessible for computer-based analytics in order to inform medical research and investigate compliance to clinical guidelines on evidence-based best practices. This vision of making primary care EMR data available for increasing quality of care and generating evidence for medical research requires a computer network infrastructure that allows connects all participating EMRs. Realizing such a computer network infrastructure poses significant research challenges with respect to informational privacy, security, and interoperability of heterogeneous EMR data models and system architectures. Objective of this project cluster is to address these challenges and develop software and system architecture in support of a computer network infrastructure for primary health care data sharing and analytics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jens Weber

Student:

Iryna Davies & TBD

Partner:

Applied Informatics for Health Society

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

A comparison of heart rate variability and brain activation during emotional regulation in athletic groups

Heart-rate variability (HRV) may be used to index important aspects of brain control of the heart during emotional regulation. Yoga may enhance athletic performance, in part, by facilitating emotional regulation. Lululemon Athletica is interested in developing biofeedback devices designed to further enhance yoga related emotional regulation and for use to educate both their in-store work-force (i.e., educators) and clients (i.e., guests). Prior to the implementation of such techniques, the relationship between brain activation and HRV must be established. HRV has been shown to be a promising biofeedback measure during sport performance. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures task related brain activation, allowing the direct relationship between brain activation and HRV during emotional regulation to be evaluated. The Vancouver based company, Lululemon, and the Brain Behavior Lab (BBL) at the University of British Columbia will collaborate to test the effect of yoga practice on the relationship between HRV and brain activation through a combined HRV-fMRI approach. A group of expert yoga practitioners, recreational yoga practitioners, and recreational non-yoga athletes will be compared to determine whether yoga expertise enables higher HRV and related to patterns of brain activity during varied emotional stimuli. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Lara Boyd

Student:

Katie Wadden

Partner:

Lululemon Athletica

Discipline:

Human physical performance and recreation

Sector:

Apparel and textiles

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Targeting achievement in higher-order thinking and STEM: An interprofessional approach

This proposed research investigates the use of ThUMP by classroom educators to foster high order thinking through authentic and meaningful practice activities. Research suggests that practice is require to obtain expertise in complex subject areas such as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). ThUMP allows educators to author practice activities that students can access using mobile devices. This proposed research adopts a design based approach in order to provide feedback / feed forward to the Mathtoon’s developers. Findings from this study will be shared in recognized international conferences and publications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Susan Crichton

Student:

Deb Carter

Partner:

Mathtoons Media Inc.

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Digital media

University:

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Exploring Solutions for Sustainable Rural Drinking Water Systems

Our four interns and six internships will be invaluable components in the research being conducted. These interns will be collecting primary data for the project and will be working directly with industry partners to test and develop feasible solutions to community drinking water problems. Our parter  organizations will directly benefit from our internships, as our interns will be providing our partners wth outside marketing with their case study reports. Furthermore, we plan to test certain asset management and GIS mapping technologies with municipalities, which will provide feedback and analysis on our partner's products. As Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador as well as Professional Municipal Administrators are both research partners on this project, industry partners will have direct contact with their target market. Overall, our internships will also positively increase our industry partner's public image and will help our partners meet their commitments towards corporate responsibility.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Kelly Vodden

Student:

Theresa-Jan Lightfoot, Jen Daniels, David Speed, Alice Will & TBD

Partner:

Compusult Limited

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Commercialization of Exro Technologies’ VIEG Technology

The aim of the internship is to develop strategies for commercialization of radical, generic technologies developed by Exro in the area of clean technology. They have developed and patented. a variable input electrical generator that could be very efficiently used in producing electricity for undetermined electricity generation levels from clean tech sources like wind turbine and wave turbines. This internship will apply technology management techniques to inform the commercialization strategy of Exro Technologies. A technology roadmap for Exro Technologies’ VIEG technology will be developed from the following: analysis of prospective markets, analysis of strategies and partnerships for prospective markets, matching Exro Technologies’ VIEG invention to a potential set of target markets and applications through viability analysis and other strategic considerations, prioritization of target markets and applications. The intent is to inform the commercialization strategy of Exro Technology in such a way as to provide commercially benefit to the company and social value to society through the more efficient production of electricity from clean tech sources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Elicia Maine

Student:

Mitun Bhattacharyya

Partner:

Exro Technologies

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Energy

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Experimental and Finite Element Analysis of Electron Beam Weld in Inconel-713LC Turbine Blades

Electron beam welding of shroud in Inconel-713LC blades are often associated with cracking. This leads to a high scrap rate for manufacturing of blades used in the gas turbine engines. In this study, in order to understand the root cause of the cracks, a comprehensive experimental and finite element analysis will be carried out to correlate the process variables and response of material to electron beam welding. In that way, electron beam welding process parameters will be optimized to suppress cracking. By this means, the scrap rate of expensive components and consequently manufacturing cost will be reduced significantly.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohammad Jahazi

Student:

Ahmad Chamanfar & TBD

Partner:

Rolls Royce Canada Limited

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Software Engineering for Mobile Game Software Product Lines

This project investigates the cost effectiveness of applying product line techniques to the development of the common elements of certain types of video games. Approximately ten games will be analyzed to identify those parts that are used by most of the games. Those commonly used parts will then be re-engineered to make them more generic and to facilitate their reuse in new games, thereby decreasing the cost of production and reducing the time it takes to bring a new video game to market. This improvement in production efficiency is expected to help the project company maintain and enhance their competitive position in this export-oriented market and the results will be tested by using them to implement a prototype game.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Dwight Makaroff

Student:

Nigel Jurgens

Partner:

Experience First Design Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Digital media

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Graphene-like-carbon coatings for thermal applications

The focus of this project is focused on developing thermal transport coatings, which makes use of a new proprietary graphene-like material developed by 3M Canada. The need for improved thermal transport coating is important to numerous optoelectronic applications, photovoltaics and in particular the semiconductor industry as computing power continues to increase. The proposed research will occur at the University of Western Ontario and the 3M Canada in London, Ontario. Specifically, the research will look at using a variety of different promising materials blended with the graphene-like material developed by 3M Canada. This will allow for a greater range and combinations of desirable film properties. Also, methods for the fabrication of films desired thickness and properties will be developed by tuning the nanoscale structure of these films. This work should help in developing several different lines of thermal transport coatings, where different types of films with various grades of properties can be sold at a given price point for different applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Giovanni Fanchini

Student:

Sergey Dedyulin

Partner:

3M Canada

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Knowledge, awareness, and uptake of new Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines

Being physically active is associated with many health benefits. To help guide people on how much activity they need for optimal health, the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology developed new Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for all age groups. Specifically, this work will look at assessment, awareness, and uptake of the new guidelines as it relates to Canadians, their families, and their health care providers. Research from many different groups will be brought together and presented to researchers, parents, teachers, and practitioners with the hopes of raising awareness of the new guidelines. This work will aim to produce a scientific paper, a conference presentation, and help to inform the process to update future guidelines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Mark Tremblay

Student:

Allana LeBlanc

Partner:

Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology

Discipline:

Human physical performance and recreation

Sector:

Sports and recreation

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Visualizing the Performance of Scientific Applications Executing with Space-Time Domain Decomposition

Today’s high performance computers offer the possibility of computing complex large scale computational fluid dynamics simulations in a reasonable time. In practice, exploting the thousands of computing cores to achieve the desired solution time is very challenging. These challenges include finding enough work to keep all these cores busy, and assigning work to different parts of the computing platform that can include different types of multicore processors and manycore graphics processors. A promising approach involves simultaneously computing different time intervals in the simulation, using what is called the parareal algorithm. Careful monitoring of the performance of the computation is required in order to fine tune the implementation of this algorithm so that it produces the desired benefit. This project will investigate the development and use of a visualization tool to allow effective use of the parareal algorithm on current high performance computers. This will enable Envenio to achieve significant performance gains on large-scale real world fluid dynamics problems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Eric Aubanel

Student:

Mengru Wang

Partner:

Envenio Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

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