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Developing a Lipid-Based System for Co-delivery of a Vaccine and Adjuvants

University of British Columbia and Amgen British Columbia (ABC) will collaborate to develop a safe and efficient lipid-based vaccine delivery system that can be used in laboratory animals to enhance the production of specific antibodies against difficult targets. These antibodies can be further screened and characterized for treating various diseases in humans.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shyh-Dar Li

Student:

Partner:

Amgen British Columbia

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Pharmaceuticals; Biotechnology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Effective use of a variable speed blower fan on a mechanical wild blueberry harvester for increased debris separation and berry quality

Wild blueberries are an important crop to this region as this is the only area that wild blueberries are naturally occurring. The changes in wild blueberry crop conditions caused by improved management practices over the past decade has caused increased plant density and leaf foliage. This extra foliage has made it more difficult for the harvester operator to clean debris (leaf, soil, sticks, etc.) from the blueberries before they are placed in the loading bins. There is an urgent requirement from the processing plants to decrease the amount of debris present in the bins arriving at the processing facilities.
The main objective of this project is to install and study the effects of a variable speed blower fan to effectively remove debris on a mechanical wild blueberry harvester. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qamar Zaman

Student:

Partner:

Wild Blueberry Producers Association of Nova Scotia

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Information and cultural industries

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Intégration de la réalité augmentée et de la réalité virtuelle dans un contexte de formation

Les systèmes de réalité augmentée (RA) et de réalité virtuelle (RV) ont récemment été implémentés dans divers secteurs professionnels, notamment dans les domaines de l’éducation et de la formation. Ces systèmes permettent, aux moyens de casques et d’écouteurs, de plonger les utilisateurs dans des environnements réels pour la RA, mais qui comportent des éléments virtuels numérisés et intégrés, ou dans des environnements complètement virtuels et en trois dimensions (3D) pour la RV. Ce stage postdoctoral a pour objectif d’étudier plus en profondeur le rôle et l’impact de l’usage de ces systèmes de RA et de RV dans un contexte de formation pour adultes. Plus particulièrement, nous allons proposer des méthodes et des outils favorisant l’appropriation de ces nouvelles stratégies de formation par les formateurs, mais aussi par les participants aux formations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Beaudry

Student:

Partner:

Ellicom Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing Participatory Management with a 5S project – An Empirical Approach

This Mitacs Project’s aim is to calibrate and test a model to assess and improve the employee’s engagement. The work will focus in define a methodology to identify the necessary data for the calibration and the installation of a model (a set of equations) for improvement of a factory. This project will benefit both: the researchers with data for calibration and the factory with a new tool to improve productivity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Samuel-Jean Bassetto

Student:

Partner:

Wajax Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’un outil de stratégie marketing basé sur la fouille de données historiques

Depuis quelques années, de plus en plus d’entreprises utilisent le data mining pour mieux comprendre les caractéristiques et les comportements de leurs clientèles. L’utilisation du data mining dans une étude de marché peut permettre d’identifier des facteurs invisibles avec des méthodes traditionnelles et ainsi avoir meilleure connaissance du client et bonifier la relation avec ce dernier. Ceci devrait résulter en de nouveaux processus menant à une relation long terme avec les clients. Ce projet de recherche vise à développer un outil d’exploration de données pour mener une étude de marché et identifier les stratégies commerciales adaptées. L’outil sera développé pour une entreprise oeuvrant dans le domaine du e-commerce et se spécialisant dans la vente d’offres de rabais de divers produits, services et activités. Les données à disposition comptent les informations de toutes les transactions ayant eu lieu sur une période de 6 ans. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruno AGARD

Student:

Partner:

Tuango Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Using PET/MRI to improve current pre-clinical biomarkers in cancer

Treatments that involve activating a patient’s own immune system, immunotherapies, are becoming important cancer therapies. Unfortunately, doctors don’t always know the best way to combine these therapies to best treat patients and the current tools they have to evaluate treatment success don’t work well for immunotherapies. Molecular imaging, particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron emission tomography (PET) can help researchers learn more about how these therapies work and how best to combine them. Cubresa has developed advanced technology that allows researchers to simultaneously use PET and MRI for preclinical research.We will therefore be studying how this technology can be used to improve immune cell tracking with MRI and investigate current and new tools for evaluating immunotherapies that can be applied to the clinic. Together with Cubresa, we plan to develop PET/MRI applications that improve and accelerate the translation of immunotherapies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kimberly Brewer

Student:

Partner:

Cubresa Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Microfabrication Process Development for Wafer-Scale Vacuum-Encapsulated Microresonators

Miniaturized resonators and oscillators built using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies have the potential to revolutionize the $5 billion timing market, as they offers direct CMOS compatibility, a dramatic size reduction, and a fabrication cost that is a fraction of the current incumbent technology. However, frequency stability has proved to be major challenge for many companies. In collaboration with Teledyne DALSA, NXTSENS has demonstrated the highest performance vacuum-encapsulated MEMS resonator currently available. The goal of this project is to explore the integration, performance, and stability limits of the technology by developing and introducing three key microfabrication steps in the process flow. Devices developed through the new process have the potential to substantially surpass Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) specifications and enable new applications in the fields of global positioning systems (GPS) and mobile electronics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Srikiar Thattai Vengallatore

Student:

Partner:

NxtSens inc;Teledyne DALSA (Bromont, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Information and Communications Technology; Automotive

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced Analytics for Credit Unions

The worldwide data explosion would emphasize on importance of knowledge discovery from massive, heterogeneous, and dynamic volumes of information (Big Data). Similar to other industrial organizations, Credit union industry deals with massive amounts of structured (e.g. customer demographics and transactional data) and unstructured (e.g. email, social media data, comments) data which they have not utilised well to be able to proactively offer their products and services according to their customer needs. The main goal of this internship would be to perform a diagnostics analysis to gain insight over how machine learning and statistical analysis approaches can help credit union industry have a better understanding of their customers and be able to model their customer behaviours and therefore provide better services for them.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Maurer

Student:

Partner:

Celero Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Examining the effects of “Fearless Physical Activity” workshops on physiological and psychosocial health in children with congenital heart disease

The “Fearless Physical Activity” workshops are designed to educate and introduce children with congenital heart disease (CHD) to physical activities that are safe for their health. These workshops will provide opportunities for children with CHD and their families to try new activities and to learn about the benefits of lifelong physical activity, specific to those with CHD. The research project undertaken by the intern will look at the effect of these workshops on daily physical activity, physical activity motivation and self-esteem. This project will be of benefit for the partner organization, the Canadian Congenital Heart Alliance (CCHA) as it will contribute evidence-based knowledge about how to encourage physical activity among CHD children and directly benefit its’ members through workshop participation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Deborah O'Leary;Patricia Longmuir

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Congenital Heart Alliance;University of Ottawa

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Brock University

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Analysis of a High Performance Residence to Meet Upcoming BC Step Codes

In the coming months, a new set of energy efficiency targets called “step codes” will be incorporated into the standards used to build houses. The step code is intended to provide builders with a better understanding of what is expected of them when they build energy efficient homes. It will also allow municipalities incorporate energy efficiency standards into new housing developments. The anticipated problem is that the builders may struggle to meet these energy efficiency standards because it is different from the homes they are used to building. This study will try to design an energy efficient home using construction materials and methods familiar to home builders to help them with this transition to the new step codes. The building will incorporate better wall designs to reduce heat loss, air leaking and moisture transfer. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya

Student:

Partner:

RJC Engineers

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Clean Technology; Green/Alternative Energy

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Crack formation in twin-sheet thermoformed HDPE kayaks

Thermoforming is an industrial manufacturing method to form plastic sheets into shapes such as small boats. Our industrial partner uses twin-sheet thermoforming which includes joining two sheets of high density polyethylene (HDPE) to manufacture small boats. Cracking adjacent to the welded area has been observed in one of their joint designs. The cracking problem appears every 2-3 years and its origin is currently unknown. The objective of this study is to identify the source of this cracking problem and propose a practical solution. Since there are no published scientific studies providing data for twin-sheet thermoforming, our work will provide published fundamental data about this process. In order to achieve these goals, materials analysis, modeling and process evaluation will be performed. We expect to find the source of the cracking in the characteristics of the plastic, working conditions and the joint design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paula Wood-Adams

Student:

Partner:

Pelican International Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Évaluation économique des services écosystémiques des terres protégées par Corridor Appalachien

Surrogate safety analysis is a growing field of road safety where the diagnosis is based on direct observations of traffic and events with some relationship to accidents, in particular traffic conflicts or near misses. Such proactive
methods have several advantages, such as shorter observations periods, lower costs and better insights into accident processes. Yet, their widespread use depends on their ability to measure safety as well or better then accident-based methods. In particular, evaluating the safety of events requires evaluating what would have happened if road users on a collision course did not react using motion prediction methods. This project aims to
address both issues, motion prediction methods and the validation of surrogate measures of safety, and to incorporate the best methods in the industry partner’s software and services.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jérôme Dupras

Student:

Partner:

Corridor appalachien

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec en Outaouais

Program:

Accelerate

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