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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering - chemical / biological

Kitchener Bioretention Planters Evaluation

Low impact development (LID) technologies are increasingly part of the urban landscape for Canadian municipalities. Bioretention planters, also known as rain gardens, are an LID technology that infiltrates and filters runoff at the source. Though design guidance exists, there is little data available on the long term performance of LID technologies, such as bioretention systems. This study aims to contribute to the literature of field studies on the long term performance of bioretention systems, in terms of the hydrologic performance and maintenance needs. The study site will be the bioretention planters along the King Street corridor in Kitchener, Ontario, which were installed in 2009-2010. In partnership with GHD Ltd. and the City of Kitchener, this study will aid with determining what factors are leading to the currently observed poor performance of the bioretention planters in the King Street corridor, and advise on potential remedies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Drake

Student:

Sylvie Spraakman

Partner:

GHD Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding historical forest landscape dynamics in the Alberta foothills

An emerging strategy for managing natural resources such as Canada’s forests more sustainably and responsibly is to use knowledge of how Mother Nature has done it to help guide our hand. This so-called ‘ecosystem-based” approach has gained favour with provincial and federal governments, as well as national and international certification agencies. One of the foundations of such an approach is a fundamental understanding of how natural forest ecosystems have worked for millennia over time and space; how has Mother Nature provided the huge, rich array of goods and services such as timber, clean water, recreation, fishing, hunting, and critical species habitat that we enjoy today. In the Alberta foothills, the key drivers of change are climate and wildfire. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicholas Coops

Student:

Cameron Naficy

Partner:

Foothills Research Institute

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Exploration of innovative sustainability-based wine shop strategies

This project will focus in new product/services development based on customer preferences and experiences in the wine shop. With this we intend to get insights into what current Cedar Creek customers are interested in with regards to potential new products and services. In particular, we want to understand the potential for offering new products and services focused in the concept of sustainability. Furthermore, we want to understand what are the motivations that would foster a customer to purchase a sustainably-produced wine. This will help build a better understanding of the different customer profiles and will be key input for constructing a set of new (or improving current) wine shop services and products. Overall, this project will give recommendations as to further improve the current wine shop customer experience. This will provide valuable data and insights for both the organization and the intern for research purposes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Annamma Joy

Student:

Camilo Pena

Partner:

CedarCreek Estate Winery

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Optical Tissue Imaging DICOM/PACS Integration

The aim of this project is to research and develop a new DICOM modality for the optical coherence tomography images obtained by Perimeter’s Optical Tissue Imaging (OTISTM) device. Following the creation of a suitable modality, a novel solution for transfer to and integration with the PACS servers utilized by current Perimeter customers will also be developed. The device currently allows for local storage and review of obtained data, with images only ever transferred onto different servers by Perimeter staff. Therefore, through integration with PACS servers, this project will allow for improved review and assessment of the data, better flexibility of the product, improved data backup capabilities, as well as lowered Perimeter involvement in the process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julie Audet

Student:

Nicole Gauer

Partner:

Perimeter Medical Imaging

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Rich Qualitative Assessment of the Whytecliff Learning Centres’ Therapeutic, Whole-School Approach to Early Intervention

The Whytecliff Learning Centres, managed by The Focus Foundation, have been proven successful in providing a learning environment for vulnerable students who were at risk of not graduating high school due to complex combinations of factors such as mental health issues, addiction, behavioural problems, special needs, and family circumstances. As part of a grant the Centres received from the BC Ministry of Education, the Foundation will report on the Whytecliff schools’ performance in terms of student outcomes, mental health, and the centres’ unique integrated approach to education. This project investigates how the unique learning environment achieves the results as quantitatively measured in student outcomes (such as attendance, course completion, and graduation rates), and qualitatively reflected in student and staff interviews. Detailed, data-driven documentation of the Centres’ successes may lead to continued support for the Focus Foundation, and could
support the translation of elements of its unique approach for implementation in other schools.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wanda Cassidy

Student:

Cristina Serverius

Partner:

Focus Foundation of British Columbia

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Education

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Informing Indigenous Marine Protection in Gitga’at Territory

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a popular strategy for ocean conservation in Canada and several
options are available to pursue this type of protection. However, the current federal and provincial processes for
MPA development involve engagement in lengthy multi-stakeholder processes that can overwhelm local
communities and their conservation objectives. An alternative strategy is the establishment of MPAs led by
individuals or organizations in a community. This type of community-led conservation effort has shown great
success in some settings in the world, and has been pursued by Indigenous communities to protect areas that
are culturally, ecologically and economically important. In Canada, there is little experience with community-led
MPAs in First Nation communities. This research project will examine the establishment and management of a
community-led MPA from the perspective of a First Nation. The research will be conducted in partnership with
the Gitga’at First Nation and WWF-Canada, and will generate a set of recommendations that can be used by the
Gitga’at to produce a management plan for a community-led MPA in their territory.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Murray B. Rutherford

Student:

Taylor Groenewoud

Partner:

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Process Development of Volatile Cobalt ALD Precursors

Cobalt thin-films have found widespread applications in microelectronics devices; such as liners in copper interconnects, wetting layers, and caps, in addition to applications for magnetic devices and CoSi2 contacts. CVD and ALD techniques are typically used to achieve cobalt films between 2-5 nm thick with excellent conformalities and negligible resistance increase. Leading precursors for cobalt thin-film deposition include cyclopentadienylcobalt dicarbonyl and dicobalt(hexacarbonyl)tert-butylacetylene. While methods to prepare these precursors are well established, their scalability and/or process robustness for metric ton manufacturing remains unclear. Moreover, their stability profiles are not well understood, and data describing their decomposition is fleeting. In order to support optimum CVD/ALD precursor delivery temperatures, extended thermal stability of precursors is important. This project aims to develop scalable manufacturing processes to produce cyclopentadienylcobalt dicarbonyl and dicobalt(hexacarbonyl)tert-butylacetylene, and seek to understand their thermal stabilities in both the liquid- and gas-phase, by probing their decomposition points and identifying their decomposition products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Ragogna

Student:

Vanessa Béland

Partner:

Digital Specialty Chemicals

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Advanced manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Group IT usage, diversity and innovation

This proposal is part of a larger research program that aims to study the relationships between IT usage for communication, diversity in social and technical knowledge, and innovation in groups. We have developed a research framework based on social network theories to suggest two different mechanisms for relating diversity and IT usage to novel idea generation and implementation. Our findings will help the partner organization to improve its capability to innovate by better forming and managing diversity within and across group in the context of innovations labs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yasser Rahrovani

Student:

Mayur Joshi

Partner:

Scotiabank

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Intelligent surveillance for event detection

We aim to develop a video surveillance system that detects and reports events of interest to users. Traditional way is to use RGB cameras to operate in constantly and evenly illuminated areas to detect simple events. The challenge is that visual characteristics of an unconstrained scene are unstable due to illumination variations. In this project, by using RGB-D cameras, 3D position information of humans can be obtained, which is robust and insensitive to the illumination variations. Event detection is realized by machine learning models using human joint positions as features, since joint positions are suitable for event classification. An intelligent and robust real-time event detection system is to be developed in this project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rita Noumeir

Student:

Bo Li

Partner:

Aerosystems International Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing the Bioactivity of Leech Saliva Extract (LSE) in Combination with Conventional Pharmacological Treatment in Vitro and in Vivo

Medical leeching can be traced back to the beginning of civilization. Ancient Egyptians, Indians, and Greek physicians used leeching as a treatment for a variety of diseases. In the past few decades, comprehensive studies have investigated the therapeutic applications of leech products and especially leech saliva. Recent studies completed by our lab have determined a therapeutic potential of a leech saliva extract component (BPS-001), with demonstrated strong anticancer properties. We have as yet been able to define how is it working and so this project seeks to uncover the mechanisms involved in it’s therapeutic effects. We aim to do this in order to identify other possible cancer types that may be susceptible to treatment and determine the optimal dosing regimen alone or in combination with other therapies for treatment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emma Guns

Student:

Amr Ammar

Partner:

Biopep Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Fugitive Emissions in Liquefied Natural Gas Transmission, Storage, and Distribution: Canadian Solutions for Transportation and Remote Power

The proposed research will be focused on eliminating fugitive emissions from liquefied natural gas (LNG) transmission, storage, and distribution operations. LNG can be used as fuel for transportation, and for combined heat and power generation in remote locations. We will study transmission, storage, and distribution operations by developing quasi-steady-state and time-dependent thermodynamic models. These models will be validated using data from instrumented equipment at our industrial partners’ sites (a small consortium has been created specifically to support the proposed research). The expected research breakthroughs can be transferred to our consortium partners immediately – thereby enhancing the safety and competitiveness of Canada’s natural gas sector.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joshua Brinkerhoff

Student:

S. Rasoul Asaee

Partner:

Siemens Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a numerical wave uprush prediction tool for the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River shoreline

Wave uprush and the potential for flooding are natural hazards that must be determined by the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority (CRCA) prior to the approval of a near-shore development. The purpose of calculating wave uprush is to recommend building sites that are outside of the wave uprush area (and floodplain in general) to land owners and municipalities, as well as provide information for flood proofing of existing buildings, roadways, etc. The CRCA has manually calculated wave uprush at 200 sites along the more than 200 km of shoreline in eastern Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Recently, there has been a need to compute wave uprush along an additional 260 km of shoreline. This project will examine the accuracy of existing CRCA wave uprush methodology, by comparing their manual calculations against field observations of wave uprush. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leon Boegman

Student:

Hadiseh Bolkhari

Partner:

Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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