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Engineering - chemical / biological

Development of a theoretical and a practical model for assessing the socio-economic feasibility of small-growing businesses

The objective of the research is to provide international development agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with decision making and evaluation tools that are practical and, at the same time, are based on sound academic foundations. These tools are specific to a sector, such as nutrition, and a country, such as Guatemala. The resulting documents will assist analysts in the design of international development projects as well as in their assessment, monitoring, and evaluation. The immediate benefit of such practical guidelines would be their utilization by the partner organization in the analysis of ongoing projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Huw Lloyd-Ellis

Student:

Nhial Kuch

Partner:

Limestone Analytics Inc

Discipline:

Economics

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Generic model-based development of test means for flight control systems using variability

The development of test means for aircraft flight control systems for is a complex, multidisciplinary and time consuming task. In this project a Master student will develop a reusable model-based development framework, based on an open source tool and methodology. This model-based systems engineering approach will allow the formalization of the generic aspects of the flight control system test means as well as the variability and specific aspects. With this novel approach the industry partner will improve the efficiency of the test means development process by reducing development time, rework and documentation, but also by improving communication and understandability of the complex test means.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Liscouet-Hanke

Student:

Hasti Jahanara

Partner:

Thales Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Laboratory and Field Assessment of Performance of Treated Wildland Vegetative Fuels

The proposed project will assess and quantify the energy transfer from wildland fires as it relates to coverage of vegetative fuel with wildland fire chemicals for protection of wildland/urban interfaces. The project will extend on preliminary work on the relative performance of wildfire chemicals (e.g., water, gel, foam, and long-term retardants) on forest vegetation. The results of this proposed project will further develop proactive fire control measures, a priori to the occurrence of a fire, for community protection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

André McDonald

Student:

Razim Refai

Partner:

FPInnovations

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of EAAA Train the Trainer Workshop and Study of Recruitment Strategies

The intern will analyze pre- and post-training survey and interview data from the SARE Centre’s EAAA Train the Trainer workshops in order to improve the quality of this training. These surveys/interviews assess trainees’ previous experience, skills, knowledge, and confidence in relevant areas as indicators of the workshop’s effectiveness. The intern will also conduct exploratory research to examine how best to recruit young women to register for the EAAA program.
This project will help the SARE Centre promote the dissemination of the EAAA sexual assault resistance program to secondary and postsecondary institutions around the world (our mission) by 1) improving the workshop to best prepare Campus Trainers (graduates of this workshop) to implement the program at their institutions in a way that maximizes the program’s effectiveness, 2) informing the development of recruitment strategies that encourage young women to register for EAAA programs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robb Travers

Student:

Anne Rudzinski

Partner:

SARE Centre

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Education

University:

Program:

Accelerate

The application of UAV-based optical and thermal imagery on the estimation of intra-field soil and crop parameters

The efficient monitoring of soil and crop parameters is essential for crop stress evaluation and yield forecast in agriculture, yet most remote sensing studies focus on regional-scale soil and crop parameters estimation using satellite data. Satellite remote sensing is difficult to obtain both high spatial and temporal resolution data with a low-cost in field-scale. Currently, UAV-based remote sensing is a flexible and reliable approach could provide proper data for intra-field monitoring. This study proposes real-time and low-cost approaches for soil and crop parameters monitoring using UAV-based remote sensing in field scale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jinfei Wang

Student:

Yang Song

Partner:

A&L Canada Laboratories Inc

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Microgrid’s Performance Modeling & Optimization Method Based on Data Mining & Artificial Intelligence

With the maturity of renewable energy technology in recent years, micro-network has become an ideal power supply solution to the remote villages and islands. Recently, researchers have tried to reduce the cost of the system based on ideal assumptions. However, the factors that actually affect the system life cycle cost are varied. Including the control of the system, the maintenance mode of the system, the geographical factors of the power station and the configuration of the system will greatly affect the cycle cost of the whole system. This project attempts to find all the factors that affect the cost from a large number of raw data. The use of artificial intelligence technology will provide users with more accurate optimization program or to provide advice on its maintenance, so as to maximize the micro-grid power supply efficiency and reduce the system’s life cycle costs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Dunford

Student:

Xiaotong Wang

Partner:

Schneider Electric of Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Carbon dioxide: Alternative solutions for conversion of captured liquefied CO2 into valuable fue

The partner organisation, Sigma Energy Storage, develops energy storage by gas compression. This technology is based on the storage of electricity from intermittent energy sources, such as wind or solar power. During the gas compression, carbon dioxide can be liquefied and extracted. This project aims to convert carbon dioxide into a valuable fuel, which could be reused to fuel the machines, and thus having a low carbon footprint on the environment. To achieve the conversion of carbon dioxide into a valuable fuel, a catalyst made of graphene and copper nanoparticles will be developed based on recent research findings and the expertise of the partner laboratory.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Luc Meunier

Student:

Ulrich Legrand

Partner:

Sigma Energy Storage

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing the Functionality of Zinc Anodes in Repaired Concrete/Material

Mitigating the corrosion of reinforcement in RC structures is a critical issue for Canada’s civil infrastructure, especially with the continual use of deicing salts during winter. This pilot study will provide crucial information on the functional range of resistivity of repair materials/concretes and anode spacing, which will optimize the efficiency of an economical technology (zinc anodes) at protecting embedded reinforcement from the risk of corrosion. It is envisioned that results from this study and potentially any forthcoming project on zinc anodes will contribute to the wider use of zinc anodes in vital facilities (e.g. transportation infrastructure), without issues of patch accelerated corrosion (halo effect); hence, this will help improve the serviceability and longevity of many vital facilities such as bridge structures, which will inevitably reduce their life cycle costs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohamed Bassuoni

Student:

Ahmed Bediwy

Partner:

Vector Corrosion Technologies Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Anomaly Detection in Event Data

The proposed research project targets anomaly detection of event data. The project has a duration of six months and aims to achieve two objectives: (1) to evaluate the effectiveness of a novel approach for real-world data, and (2) compare it to alternative methods. The intern will use existing research resources, and will apply them to real-world data provided by the partner, Acerta Analytics Solutions, Inc. to evaluate the different methods. The expected benefit to the partner organization, Acerta, is that the outcomes of the project will improve the existing a software platform to detect failures in automotive vehicles, and eventually to predict them before they happen.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Crowley

Student:

Mahmoud Salem

Partner:

Acerta Analytics Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Building the Case for Sustainable Forestry in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia forests boast the second highest private ownership rate in Canada, with almost 3 of 4.5 million hectares owned by 30,000 woodlot owners and private corporations. Because of this, forest management practices vary widely. Though the Nova Scotian forests traditionally consist of large, mature, unevenly aged trees that support both important biodiversity and a thriving forest sector, mismanagement of these forests for decades has led to a decline of the forests and the rural communities that depend on them. This project will identify potential policies, tools, and/or programs that will overcome the barriers faced by private woodlot owners to enacting forest management practices that enable both environmental and community prosperity. Ecotrust works with communities to increase sustainable forest management practices and developing economic solutions that generate greater social, cultural, ecological, and financial outcomes in communities. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nancy Olewiler

Student:

Sydney Jordan

Partner:

Ecotrust Canada

Discipline:

Public administration

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Researching and Evaluating SBL’s Youth Space Model, Summer Program, School Year and March Break Career Exploration Programs and Improving SBL’s Research-Evaluation Framework

This project takes a holistic and comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Success Beyond Limits (SBL’s) programming as well as their research and evaluation frameworks. Operating in a low-income and marginalized setting, youth that attend SBL’s programming find it difficult to find, secure and keep meaningful employment. This research will capture the experiences of those young people coming to SBL’s programs, identify the barriers they face with respect to employment and measure the impact of all of SBL’s programs. The benefits of this research for SBL is the ability to fine-tune current program, create new and innovate programs that fill gaps as well as the ability to report in more sophisticated ways. With an opportunity for sustained research and digitizing all past research and evaluation data will better position the organization to funders and stakeholders alike. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carl James

Student:

Sam Tecle

Partner:

Success Beyond Limits

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Automated Impact Analyses to Support Code Review Practices

Large software systems are updated incrementally to add new features or fix bugs. It is a common practice in the software industry to have each incremental change reviewed by a peer to detect software quality issues and transfer knowledge among team members. While peer review boasts technical and non-technical benefits, it is still primarily based on low-level textual differencing, which place the prior and updated versions of the software source code next to one another. In this project, we will develop a tool to display high-level impact data (e.g., the areas of the released software system that are impacted by the change) by data mining archives of historical change data. We suspect that these improved tools will help Dell EMC (our partner organization) to improve the feedback being generated by their peer reviewing process and avoid costly software quality issues.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shane McIntosh

Student:

Ruiyin Wen

Partner:

Dell EMC

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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