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Low-Power Signal Processing Algorithms for an Athletic Performance Monitor

GestureLogic is building a product that optimizes athletic performance. The product is a wearable sensory network that monitors muscle activity. The goal of this research is to take this inherently complex muscle data that is acquired by the sensory network and translate it to useful biometrics for the consumer with the help of intelligent algorithms. The algorithms will help intuitively visualize important metrics such as strength of muscle contractions, heart rate and fatigue. The benefit to the partner organization is twofold. The research will help advance the organizations core product, increasing the organizations time to market. By solving some of the key problems associated with the product, the internship will also help de-risk the company’s product cycle for future investors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Leonard MacEachern

Student:

Niranjan Ramesh

Partner:

GestureLogic Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Uncertain Futures: Quality Assurance for Volunteered Geographic Information

This project is focused on exploring volunteered geographic information (VGI), a special classification of widely available and pervasive data, which is commonly afflicted by issues degrading its overall quality. These issues make the applicability of VGI for a variety of projects in government, private, and scientific sectors questionable. We hope to design and implement several software programs that will be easily adoptable to current and future research programs in alleviating these concerns. Using VGI, we will identify and diminish uncertainty in commonly used datasets and sources. The identification of the kinds of prevalent issues and reliable ways of correcting these problems will guide the design and deployment of our software, which is ultimately aimed at addressing VGI-user needs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Renee Sieber

Student:

Matthew Tenney

Partner:

Esri Canada

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Factors that Promote the Effectiveness of Internships for Internationally Qualified Professionals

This project will explore factors that contribute to the benefits of internships for internationally qualified professionals in terms of improving these essential immigrants' integration into the Canadian labour market. The project involves a partnership between Career Edge (a non-profit organization that arranges paid internships for internationally qualified professionals and Canadian individuals), the University of Western Ontario and York University, and will utilize an online survey and follow-up interviews to achieve its goals. The final products will include a report and presentation to Career Edge describing the research findings and providing recommendations for optimizing the internships that they coordinate. Given the broad relevance of the findings, we will also write the research up for publication in a peer reviewed journal and present the findings at relevant conferences.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Victoria Esses

Student:

Rui Zhang

Partner:

Career Edge

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Service industry

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding Organizational Routine Evolution and Change in Healthcare: The case of CPOE Use at The Ottawa Hospital

The Ottawa Hospital is implementing a new information technology application system, or Clinical Provider Order Entry (CPOE) system. The students will model and study all aspects of the operational routines that are affected by the technology introduction and investigate how these routines evolve and change through simulation modeling. Examining the process of changing organizational routines is particularly important, not only because they are significantly related to the performance and survival of organizations, but also because routines represent the foundation of effective organizational performance. It is these changes, when optimized that can lead to cost savings and reduction in health care costs. Discovering how best to introduce such changes, and understanding the problems that can arise will provide lessons for other hospitals and organizations who want to implement similar disruptive technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Gerald Grant

Student:

Tim Smith

Partner:

Ottawa Hospital

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Human well-being, ecosystem services and watershed management in the Credit River Valley: Web-distributed mechanisms and indicators for communication and awareness

The importance of ecosystem services to human well-being, and of management of water and other watershed resources in maintaining such services, is not commonly understood by the general public, and not well-enough articulated by environmental management and governance organizations. Beneficiaries of such services are often unaware of the nature of their dependence upon supporting ecosystems. This is particularly true in urbanized watersheds, to the point where researchers discuss “nature deficit disorder” as an aspect of this disconnection. Watershed management organizations are aware of such benefits to watershed residents, but they very rarely track and report measures of human well-being to demonstrate the efficacy of their work. This project will address both sides of this issue by identifying indicators of human well-being associated with ecosystem services, including economic valuations, developing an internet-based tool to communicate these indicators, and assessing the efficacy of this tool in an application to the Credit River Watershed, southern Ontario. Developing indicators and the corresponding communication tools will allow reporting to the communities to create awareness about key factors affecting their health and well-being. Concurrently, this project will contribute to enhancing community governance by encouraging engagement in stewardship activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Martin Bunch

Student:

S. Mitchell Harrow

Partner:

Credit Valley Conservation

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Herd Navigator as a health management tool for dairy farms

Herd Navigator (HN) is a “precision technology” for dairy cow management based on in-inline milk sampling and advanced data analysis. This system has recently come to market in Canada. The proposed project will combine analysis of data from the HN system and controlled field trials to develop and validate best management practices for health, production and reproduction. This research will benefit the dairy industry as a whole by providing better information that help improve diagnostic, therapeutic and management plans resulting in the well-being of dairy cattle and profit to the dairy producer. Our industry partner (DeLaval-Canada) will benefit from this project by generating evidence-based information that can help in promotion, marketing and user support for the product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Stephen LeBlanc

Student:

Khaled Gohary

Partner:

DeLaval Canada

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

The impact of PCV13 vaccine program discontinuation on herd immunity decay and serotype replacement: a mathematical modeling study

The clinical and cost effectiveness of immunizing children WIth PCV7 and PCV13 is well established in the scientific literature. However the success of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in children has given rise to questions from payers regarding whether continued investment in PCV13 for children is needed. The proposed research project undertaken by the intern will help the partner organization to quantitatively determine: 1) What is the optimal percentage of the children population that needs to be vaccinated to incure herd immunity in the rest of the population? 2) If vaccinating children with PCV13 were discontinued, how fast will herd immunity decay? and 3) If cavvination of children with PCV13 were discontinued, how fast will previously protected serotypes return to the population? Answers to these questions will inform the partner oganization for make evidence-based decisions on the PCV13 vaccination program.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Michael Li

Student:

Rebecca de Boer

Partner:

Institute of Health Economics

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Economic viability of an ecosystem-based management in an eastern Canadian boreal forest

New forest law in Quebec implemented since early this year requires the forest management companies to put ecosystem-based management in the center of their forest management strategies by designing the forest management activities to resemble closely the natural disturbances (e. g., clear cutting to emulate stand replacing disturbances and partial cutting for secondary disturbances). Partial cutting is expected to be intensified to meet this objective. However, we do not have enough experience to demonstrate that partial cutting is economically viable. Through the investment analyses in a boreal forest located in south-western Quebec and managed by Tembec Inc., this study is expected to provide the partner organization with knowledge on economic potential of the partial cutting of different intensity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Osvaldo Valeria

Student:

Narayan Prasad Dhital

Partner:

Tembec Inc.

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Pulp and paper

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Evolution of digital access modes in Employee and Family Assistance Programs

Shepell·fgi is a leading provider of Employee and Family Assistance Programs (EFAPs) for domestic and global clients. As digital technology and online social networks became increasingly important, Shepell·fgi added new digital services (First Chat, Video Counselling, Online Access, and other online programs) other than the traditional delivery channels (telephone and in-person appointments). Many recent studies focus on analyzing the clinical and monetary effectiveness of these online programs, however, rarely do they focus on user demographics. The goal of this research proposal is to provide statistical longitudinal demographic analysis of 2010-2013 data from Shepell·fgi. The results of these research findings will allow Shepell·fgi to make confident decisions with regards to investment and expansion of their online programs. A better understanding of demographic trends of support delivery will help Shepell·fgi counsel their clients more effectively.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Hanna Jankowski

Student:

Yanhua Tian

Partner:

Shepell-fgi

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Optimization of Crankshaft Vibration Dampers

This research project attempts to tackle the major issues experienced with crankshaft vibration in modern internal combustion engines through the use of tuned finite element model and optimized rubber dampers. The purpose of this project is to lay out a systematic approach for the design of torsional vibration dampers when given a set of engine parameters. Current industry development relies heavily on the trial and error method as well as past engineering experience. Although this method eventually yields a product which satisfies the performance requirements, excessive development time is required to achieve this state of completion. This project will tackle the development process through the use of advanced finite element methods with the goal of drastically reducing time from inception to production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Il Yong Kim

Student:

Dan Foresi

Partner:

Magna Powertrain

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Wireless Asset Tracking and Locating System

Proposed research project consists of finding a suitable solution to the problem of tracking assets in environments with different constraints. The solution is expected to include the development of geolocation algorithm and then based on the algorithm creating schematics of several modules with transceivers, embedding of required low level software to the selected microcontroller controlling the transceivers, developing high level software for server side data management and client side monitoring and control. The design of the modules hardware parts requires knowledge about electronic design. Multiple coding languages such as C to run on microcontroller, Java and Python to run on server and client side and Matlab for simulation, will be used to complete the project. If the prototyping and testing succeeds, the company will have the research and development work done before creating a finished product ready for production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Abbas Yongaçoglu

Student:

Kerem Karatas

Partner:

Technical Solutions Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding Event-based Interactions in Enterprise Web Applications

JavaScript is widely used today to create interactive web applications that replace many traditional desktop applications. However, understanding the behaviour of web applications is a challenging endeavour for developers. Despite its importance and challenges, there is currently not much research dedicated to supporting program comprehension for web applications and popular industrial tools, such as Firebug and Chrome DevTools, are limited in their capabilities to support web developers effectively. In this work, we propose to extend our web application comprehension technique, called Clematis, so that it can readily be applied on industrial enterprise web applications. Clematis automatically captures low-level events, their temporal and causal relations, and creates a behavioural model that is presented to the developer as an interactive visualization. To make this technique applicable in practice, we will explore how custom higher-order actions can be intercepted and mapped to lower level native event interactions and presented to web developers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ali Mesbah

Student:

Saba Jani

Partner:

SAP Business Objects Division

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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