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Développement de composites bois-polymère avec une haute stabilité dimensionnelle

Une entreprise canadienne désire commercialiser un matériau composite bois-polymère (CBP). Ce matériau vise plusieurs applications, principalement dans le secteur de la construction. Afin de percer ce marché en croissance, l’entreprise travaillera avec l’Université du Québec an Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) afin de développer des formulations de CBP qui n’absorbent pas d’eau. L’entreprise partenaire bénéficierait de l’expertise de l’UQAT et d’un stagiaire qualifié dans le développement de ce nouveau matériau. Le matériau innovant développé permettrait de cibler des marchés niches de haute valeur. Ce matériau se démarquerait des produits CBP importés de l’Asie et des États-Unis qui occupent actuellement le marché canadien de ces produits.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sébastien Migneault;Ahmed Koubaa

Student:

Partner:

L.J.L. Mécanique Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Ecomuseums: Local community engagement, identity and governance.

Ecomuseums are primarily community-based endeavors that respond to local needs while concentrating on sustainability. They help guide and develop democratic projects that focus on connections to local history and heritage, which include local physical geographic features, natural resources, natural habitats and agricultural practices. This research concentrates on three case studies in southern Saskatchewan to study ecomuseum citizen participation and governance. Three unique ecomuseums are used as case studies. The three case studies are embedded within the context of social-economic disparity, rural-urban connections, and environmental advocacy. My aim is to explore ecomuseum citizen participation and governance. The anticipated results will help identify the various forms of citizen participation and governance employed by local ecomuseums. I hope this research will benefit local communities and my partner organization by expanding the ecomuseum concept and building fruitful connections between the University of Regina, local communities and the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amber Fletcher;Kyle Hodder

Student:

Partner:

Friends of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Towards a rational design of slender masonry walls

Design of loadbearing, out-of-plane (OOP), tall masonry walls tends to have stringent limits related to their buckling stability and the scarcity of research on their structural reliability. This currently puts the masonry industry at a disadvantage as a construction alternative compared to other structural options. The dearth of masonry research and innovation in slender wall design since the 1980’s, when working stress and prescriptive-based design was common, has had a negative impact on the use of conventional slender masonry walls as limit states and objective-based design was adopted. This project consists of the development of analytical models for walls (validated with experimental data) which will be used to conduct reliability studies to investigate the safety and accuracy of current design methods. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carlos Cruz Noguez

Student:

Partner:

Alberta Masonry Council

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Sustainability Employee Engagement Research Project

In the summer of 2017, GM of Canada will be launching several employee engagement campaigns pertaining to sustainability goals. This project will determine how the control of different variables could lead to more or less employee engagement. These variables include the communication medium, the reward mechanism, and the depth of technical detail. By better understanding of what communication practices lead to effective employee engagement, GM can better tailor future sustainability campaigns to bring about larger impact.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patricia Corcoran;Stephan Vachon

Student:

Partner:

General Motors of Canada;Western University

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises; Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Modélisation et analyse technico-économique de la cavitation et de la fissuration d’une roue de turbine hydraulique

Ce projet a pour but de proposer aux exploitants des centrales hydroélectriques d’Hydro-Québec un modèle d’estimation et de prédiction de la dégradation de leurs turbines hydrauliques. Celui-ci pourra être régulièrement mis à jour en se basant sur des inspections planifiées et réalisées de façon logique. L’estimation de la dégradation des systèmes est essentielle à la planification de la maintenance. En effet, afin de réduire au maximum les coûts liés au maintien en bon état des équipements, une maintenance (préventive de préférence) doit être réalisée aux moments opportuns ; que ce soit du point de vue du seuil critique de dégradation ou de celui des pertes d’exploitations qui sont les conséquences d’un arrêt de production. Les retombées espérées du projet se traduisent en une réduction des coûts liés à la maintenance et une meilleure disponibilité des équipements de l’exploitant.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Souheil-Antoine Tahan

Student:

Partner:

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Adapting Wearable Technology to Monitor Pilot Fatigue

The objective of this research proposal is to develop a framework to track and manage the fatigue of pilots involved with aerial firefighting. Interns of different backgrounds (neuroscience, engineering and statistics) will work together to achieve this goal. The neuroscience intern will collect physiological data to identify how a pilot’s physical and cognitive performance is impacted by the demands of aerial firefighting. The engineering and statistics interns will use these and other relevant data to create the framework to manage pilot fatigue. The partner organization, Conair Group Inc, will use this framework to improve both pilot safety and the efficiency of aerial firefighting operations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chris McNeil;Homayoun Najjaran;Jason Loeppky

Student:

Partner:

Conair Group Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Impact of a rehabilitation program on EMG-EMG coherence in stroke patients

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Canada and France, and a major cause of disability world wide. Physiotherapy rehabilitation programs are used to improve movement through neural adaptations, also known as neural plasticity, in stroke patients. During this project stroke patients, will be performing individualized rehabilitation programs that include weekly clinical assessment of movement abilities, as well as, the performance of walking exercises on a treadmill, while the electrical activity in the muscles of the leg that dorsiflex (flex) the foot at the ankle, and muscles that plantar flex (extend) the foot at the ankle are measured. The purpose of this research is to quantify the magnitude of muscular electrical activity coherence (EEG-EEG coherence) between muscles that flex or extend the foot at the ankle, as well as, assess any relationship between clinical evaluation and EEG-EEG coherence. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olav Krigolson

Student:

Partner:

Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Implementing Factor Models in Investment Management

The internship will consist of studying, building, implementing and testing so called factors that are used to characterize the equities, commodities and currencies that the company invests in. These factors can be thought of as characteristics relating a group of securities that is important in explaining their returns and risk. My task will be first to understand the risk factors that are of particular importance to the company’s investment strategy. Following this, I will use literature on the subject to construct proxies, or representations, of these risk factors that can be explicitly defined using quantitative information of different industries. Once this is done I will also build models that involve combinations of many factors as well as test different such models against each other for efficiency. Finally, I will also attempt to design new factors based on knowledge and expertise acquired through literature as well as implementing existing models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Manuel Morales

Student:

Partner:

IPSOL Capital Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Production of Canola Oil Based Healthy Food Emulsifiers Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Media

Emulsifiers, specifically diacylglycerides and monoacylglycerides, have the potential to replace fats and oils high in saturated fats such as palm and thus provide healthy and low-caloric food products. Canola based DAGs and MAGs not only can reduce the saturated fat content and food calories, they also can improve the functionalities of food products. However, they are produced using costly and environmentally unfriendly “enzyme in solvent” systems, and have shortcomings when utilized in certain food applications. This research will investigate the feasibility of manufacturing DAGs and MAGs from canola oil based on enzymatic reaction (ER) using supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2). Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technique will be used to analyze the final product. The SC-CO2 and NMR are “green” solutions compared to current solvent systems and have to potential to be more cost effective. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Scanlon;Peter Jones

Student:

Partner:

Canola Council of Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Capture and utilization of heat and CO2 from in-vessel composting of municipal source-separated organics in a modular vertical greenhouse

Municipal composting of source separated organics is a costly process that utilizes significant energy and labour. The potential exists to capture and take advantage of by-products generated from the biological decay of the organics, including CO2 gas and heat. We are proposing to have a PhD and a MSc student investigate the potential of capturing these by-products from the composting process to be utilized in a vertical stacked greenhouse system to promote urban agriculture and food sustainability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gordon Price;Paul Arnold

Student:

Partner:

Hatch Ltd (NS)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Social welfare systems analysis of road capacity expansion options

Cintra Canada Inc. has conducted several research studies on the advantages of implementing managed lanes (lanes where operational/management strategies are implemented in response to varying travel demand/supply conditions) with the focus on the travel speeds, road capacity, and air quality benefits. However, no study to date, has conducted a comprehensive analysis of the system-wide welfare benefits/costs of managed lanes. Cintra, as one of the major providers of managed lanes in North America, is eager to understand the fundamental and broader implications of various managed lane options. With the help of three intern-students and through the partnership between Cintra Canada and the PI (Omid M. Rouhani), we will examine the system-wide impacts of managed lanes projects, taking into account various pricing options (fixed, time-varying, and dynamic tolls), funding options (general taxes or user fees), and types of provision (private or public).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Omid M Rouhani;Luis F. Miranda-Moreno

Student:

Partner:

4352238 Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Transportation and warehousing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Predictive Content Marketing Analyses

Globally, companies now spend upwards of $200B per year on on-line content marketing (CM) materials and strategies, with this expending rapidly year-over-year at double-digit rates. These activities and efforts are changing how traditional corporate sales funnels function as now, in CM driven markets, clients and customers chose to arrive into a given company’s sales funnel after having already become well-acquainted with the markets available products and services, their expected price points, and their available reviews and social media commentary. For companies active in CM it is, therefore, becoming increasingly critical to produce the right and effective CM materials at the right time in order to attract clients and customers into the sales funnel. Poor, mediocre, missing, or indifferent CM materials can even act to drive clients and customers towards competitor offerings. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Neville;Thomas Darcie

Student:

Partner:

Wesley Clover (Victoria, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

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