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Technical Process Technician & Data Management Assistant

??Bryan & Company LLP is a local Edmonton law firm (approx. 100 full-time employees) founded in 1928. Early in 2023, the Company welcomed a new IT Manager who is tasked with developing the technology roadmap for the next strategic planning cycle that will bring the Company to its centennial in 2028. ?Bryan is also in the midst of evaluating our technology needs and is contemplating a single, more all-encompassing technology solution. In preparation for this, we will need to clearly document all of our internal processes. ?In 2024, Bryan & Company will commence an upgrade of our document management system; this change includes moving to a cloud-based solution and the new technology will be integrated with Microsoft Outlook.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hina Abro;Tarah Batstone

Student:

Partner:

Bryan & Company LLP

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

NorQuest College

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Port of Halifax – Aquatic Ecosystems Literature Review

The Halifax Port Authority (HPA) is launching a study that will examine aquatic ecosystems in the Halifax Harbour. This work will support HPA in better understanding local ecosystems that have the potential to be affected by port operations and thus determine the port’s zones of influence. This research study will help to establish benchmarks for aquatic ecosystem presence, health, diversity, vulnerability/resilience, and fecundity, in the Halifax Harbour and will support HPA in developing an approach to minimizing the potential impacts of the marine transportation sector within the port’s zones of influence. By gaining a better understanding of aquatic ecosystems in the Halifax Harbour, HPA can begin to prioritize efforts to minimize potential impacts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hannah Harrison

Student:

Partner:

Halifax Port Authority

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Predicting Material Properties from Electronic Band Structures: Integrating Machine Learning with Computational Modeling Techniques

The project involves the development of a machine learning model which can predict targeted properties of materials from their band structure. Computational modeling methods, such as ab initio (quantum chemistry) calculations, Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics, enable us to calculate properties of materials from their crystalline structure. The band structure is a representation of how the electrons are distributed in the material and how they behave. This is linked to many properties of the material, such that visualizing the band structure can elucidate the underlying electronic properties of materials. However, establishing such a correlation is far from trivial and necessitates extensive and intensive calculations. We envision that machine learning could bridge easily computed band structures with electronic properties of interest, namely total magnetization, piezoelectric and dielectric constants.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bettina Kemme

Student:

Partner:

Chemia Discovery Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Clean Technology; Green/Alternative Energy; Artificial Intelligence; Quantum Science

University:

McGill University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Life Cycle Assessment of Flame Retardant Textile used in the Production of Occupational Safety Clothing: A Case Study of the Personal Protective Equipment Industrytudy of the

The project is on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Flame Retardant Textile used for the Production of Occupational Safety Clothing with focus on the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Industry, and the results of the research will provide data for the partner company to be able to provide information and guidance at different steps in the manufacturing and garment’s life cycle that will help decision-makers better understand how to make meaningful steps towards more sustainable decisions in this industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Irene Herremans

Student:

Partner:

Olsen PPE Consulting

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Designing visualization and analytical tools for citizen- and data- driven research in agroecology

To respond to the lack of digital tools for small-scale farmers, our team has been developing Litefarm (https://www.litefarm.org), a free and open source multifunctional web app which can be used by farmers to enter data for farm management, obtaining organic certification, and participatory assessment of agroecological outputs. Launched in 2020, LiteFarm is now the world’s first community-led, not-for-profit, digital platform joining farmers and scientists, and is being piloted independently by over 2500 farmers in more than 110 countries.The intern will join our team to develop a data dashboard for researchers and Litefarm users, while contributing to the development of specific statistical and mathematical methods to model green house gas emissions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Khanh Dao Duc

Student:

Partner:

CentraleSupélec

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

CityHive/REACH-Cities

CityHive is a Metro Vancouver-based non-profit organization on a mission to transform the way that young people are engaged in shaping their cities: in city planning, decision-making processes and urban sustainability issues. This project will support CityHive to complete a comprehensive evaluation on CityHive’s programs and youth engagement impact, including their CityShapers in Schools, Urban ReVision, Youth Climate Innovation Lab and other programs. The output of this project will be used to better inform the design and development of CityHive’s future civic education and climate action programs and provide greater direction for CityHive’s new Strategic Plan.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Meghan Winters

Student:

Partner:

CityHive

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Marketing Coop Student 0524

Cantiro is an award winning real estate company with projects across Alberta, BC and Ontario. We are working with Mitacs to continue to drive innovation in how we adapt the latest retail strategies, trends and emerging technologies to some of individuals’ largest purchases including:
• creating a new way for customers to experience the homebuying journey through a centralized Discovery Centre located in emerging communities,
• developing new products to meet the current housing shortages and affordability challenges consumers are facing,
• incorporating new technologies and AI-enhanced systems to increase efficiencies and productivity, and
• exploring emerging AI capabilities to increase the personalization of a customer’s home research, selection, purchasing and move-in experience.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kennedy Farnell

Student:

Partner:

Cantiro Asset Management Corporation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Bolsa Família, or Familiar Bosses? Conditional Cash, Citizenship, and Clientelism in Brazil

In the last decade, “Conditional Cash Transfers” (CCTs) have spread across Latin America. CCTs involve small, monthly cash transfers to poor families on the condition
that children attend school and obtain vaccinations. Studies suggest that these transfers are relatively effective at alleviating extreme poverty. But what are their impacts beyond the material realm? This project investigates whether CCTs have been able to strengthen the citizenship of groups which have long felt excluded from Latin American democracies. Using the case of the Brazilian Bolsa Família – the continent’s largest CCT program – the project draws from fieldwork interviews with Bolsa recipients and other key actors to ascertain whether and how transfers have affected the everyday politics of the poor. Is this money from the government just a new way to buy the poor’s votes – as some have alleged – or can it enhance political agency, and pave the way for a more inclusive society?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Oxhorn

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Green/Alternative Energy; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Operations Administrator

We are offering a student at NAIT the opportunity to gain experience with marketing, social media, website management, and sport organization operations. The co-op student would be task with audited our current marketing and social media plans and making changes to improve them and advance the interest of the organization. The student would also be tasked with researching how other organizations have increased their membership, and how we can apply those same principles, and investigating any potential sponsorship opportunities that exist for the organization. Additionally, the student would assist in the operations of the provincial team program, and assist the technical director in ensuring the administration of the program is handled correctly.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kennedy Farnell

Student:

Partner:

Alberta Artistic Swimming

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Mechanisms and prevention strategies for orthostatic intolerance in older adults

The RIA is a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life and care of older adults through partnerships in research, education and practice. One of the RIA’s key areas of interest involves addressing unexplained falls in older adults, which dramatically increases morbidity and mortality in individuals with pre-existing frailty. There is currently a gap in the literature on risk factors for unexplained falls. The overall aim of this project is to discover these risk factors and formulate novel fall risk assessments for older adults in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Norah McRae

Student:

Partner:

Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Advancement of the Minpraxis Tester using AI Technologies

The proposed project focuses on progressing development of the Minpraxis Tester (MPT), which was developed to revolutionize the characterization of rock masses and improve the likelihood that mines perform as planned. The MPT provides a degree of rock characterization that is unequalled by conventional methods. The technology measures continuously along core samples, providing an unmatched level of characterization that captures subtle differences in veining, alteration, and lithology type. Outputs include geotechnical and geometallurgical indices that can be used to inform mine and mill design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bern Klein

Student:

Partner:

Minpraxis Solutions Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Self-supervised learning for animation

In response to the dynamic challenges inherent in the gaming industry’s character animation pipelines, characterized by the labor-intensive and error-prone nature of manually labeling frame-by-frame data, this project endeavors to integrate Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) techniques into the animation workflow. SSL offers a compelling solution by enabling the acquisition of efficient and generalizable representations from large sets of unlabeled data, thus mitigating the substantial demand for accurately labeled data. The principal objective is to harness SSL to obtain a robust representation for full-body human motion, subsequently deploying this learned representation across animation-related tasks relevant to the interests of La Forge and Ubisoft. This innovative approach, marked by increased efficiency, accuracy, and versatility, promises to revolutionize character animation pipelines within the gaming industry, ushering in a paradigm shift with a reduced reliance on annotated data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Konstantinos Derpanis

Student:

Partner:

Ubisoft Divertissement;Ubisoft Toronto

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

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