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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering - chemical / biological

Characterization of the colloidal properties of concentrated casein micelles and improvement of the functionality of concentrated milk products using membrane filtration – Year 2

Whey proteins in milk are detrimental to the rennet-induced coagulation of milk. In this project, we will use microfiltration membrane technique to concentrate the milk and to remove whey proteins. A process called diafiltration (DF) will also be used to further remove whey proteins by adding water to the MF concentrated milk and then filtered. MF and MF-DF milk have different whey protein contents and ionic concentration, which will change the coagulation behaviour of milk. The objective of this project is to investigate the influence of MF and MF-DF milk on the textural and sensory properties of cheese products when they are used as ingredients. The project is expected to improve the yield and structure of current cheese products. Moreover, the company can increase its competitiveness by selling liquid concentrated milk as material compared to traditional milk powders.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arthur Hill

Student:

Zhengtao Zhao

Partner:

University of Guelph

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Elevate

Food Economy Research Project

The purpose of this research is to examine the food consumption pattern in Revelstoke, British Columbia. Through employing a three-stage action research approach – (i) the food receipt study, (ii) the social media intervention (SMI) on healthy eating and healthy cooking, and (iii) the food consumption depth interview, this study seeks to capture residents’ food consumption patterns and to develop creative recommendations to practitioners, policy-makers and academic researchers regarding rural food consumption patterns and food security. The primary goal of this research is to better understand the inter-relationship between food consumption and challenges related to food security and accessibility to healthy food in rural communities. The other goal of this study is to explore future use of mixed-methods in community-based action research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Li

Student:

Cristalle Smith

Partner:

Community Connections

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Self-powered microchips for rapid diagnosis and severity determination of urinary tract infections

Children presenting a fever without known sources are usually checked for bacterial urinary tract infection (UTI) which, in its more complicated forms, can result in permanent kidney damage. The gold standard conventional tests to diagnose complicated urinary tract infections are urine culture and kidney imaging with a radioactive tracer. However, these tests are lengthy (urine culture can take up to 48 hours to provide results) and expensive. Our aim is to develop self-powered, portable, and disposable microchips that directly detect bacterial pathogens in urine and measure blood protein biomarkers of kidney damage. Such microchips would allow rapid, sensitive, inexpensive, and minimally-invasive diagnosis of UTI as well as determination of infection severity. In addition, the developed microchips will provide immediate and high-quality diagnosis to guide clinical decisions and treatments thereby improving Canadian healthcare. TO BE CONt’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Juncker

Student:

Ayokunle Olanrewaju

Partner:

Sensoreal Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Elevate

Systematic development of novel peptide-derived therapeutics for the treatment of breast cancer

Cancer will affect 2 in every 5 Canadians in their lifetime, with just over 25% representing new breast cancer diagnoses in women. Despite significant progress in the treatment of the most common cancer in women, resistance to chemotherapeutic agents remains a consistent obstacle in terms of the successful treatment of many types of breast cancers. The Mitacs-funded collaboration between NuvoBio and the Biggar lab at Carleton University is seeking to address this issue by systematically designing and developing peptide-based inhibitors that hold the promise as new therapeutics. This will be accomplished by using novel methods of peptide-based inhibitor development to efficiently design potential inhibitors that disrupt the function of critical proteins that are known to drive breast cancer progression.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kyle Biggar

Student:

Hemanta Adhikary

Partner:

Zim Corporation

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

SSI efficacy in treating infectious colitis

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a disease with unknown etiology that is characterized by uncontrolled intestinal inflammation and microbial dysbiosis. Qu Biologics’ Site Specific Immunomodulators (SSI) are a platform technology shown to improve the status of people living with IBD (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis), with most of those patients showing clinical improvement also going into clinical remission. SSI are a complex biologic designed to reconstitute normal innate immune function through multiple parallel mechanisms. To better understand how SSI protect against IBD, we will test the efficacy of SSI in models of infectious colitis in collaboration with Dr. Bruce Vallance at the University of British Columbia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruce Vallance

Student:

H Law

Partner:

Qu Biologics Inc

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

A One-Health approach to echinococcosis (Echinococcus multilocularis) in client owned dogs in Alberta: force of infection, risk factors, diagnostics, treatments and information

This project aims to determine prevalence rates of Echinococcus species tapeworms in domestic dogs and to compare these rates to those obtained from wild canids including wolves, coyotes, and foxes. This will shed light on infection rates and risk factors for both the human population and their pet dogs. This research will benefit Bayer as they produce many pharmaceuticals that combat Echinococcus infection and believe an increased public awareness of this parasite is important for public health. Adequate education on Echinococcus will help people to avoid this risk and also to recognize potential infection in their homes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alessandro Massolo

Student:

Emilie Toews

Partner:

Bayer Inc Animal Health

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Predicting real-world attention with physiology

It is estimated that the average person spends up to 50% of their waking hours thinking about things other than what they are presently doing (i.e., mind wandering). This internal form of distraction along with its external counterpart (i.e., external distraction) are associated with performance deficits during everyday activities, such as reading or driving. Moreover, individuals are often unaware that their mind has wandered, which can lead to absentminded errors. Depending on the context, the consequences of distraction can range from reduced productivity to injury or even death. Thus, the economic and human costs associated with distraction represent an enormous burden for Canadians. The proposed research project seeks to identify the physiological signature of distraction in its endogenous and exogenous forms by measuring subjective, behavioural, and physiological changes linked to attention during everyday tasks (e.g., driving simulation, reading). TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amir Raz

Student:

Jay Olson

Partner:

9617094 Canada Inc

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Exploring Inventory optimization Through Small Business

Upon completion of the project the interns work will allow the partner organization to better understand
how inventory management is handled in small businesses. The project will also help understand what
inventory levels should be for small businesses based on predictive analytics. With this knowledge the
partner organization can better understand how it can help businesses monitor and manage their
inventory as well as prepare that inventory for future sales.
The intern’s work on this project will also allow small businesses to better know their business in general.
The research should give owners a better idea of how to monitor sales trends and understand how
different macro environmental factors affect their businesses inventory sales.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Saeed Samet

Student:

Mohammad Sheykholeslam

Partner:

Fytics Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Processing of Linac Produced 99Mo, and Extraction and Validation of 99mTc using a unique 99Mo/99mTc generator system

Technetium-99m (99mTc) is a radioactive substance that is used in nuclear medicine departments worldwide. This substance when made in an appropriate formulation is injected in patients and following its decay pictures of the patient can be obtained. This pictures help physicians diagnose certain diseases notably cancers and heart diseases. The government of Canada historically was the main producer of this radioactive substance. Due to the aging of the machines that are used to produce these substance the government announced that in 2019 it will no longer be producing Tc-99m. To fill this looming gap Canadian Isotope Innovations Corp (CIIC) has developed a new technology to produce this much needed isotope. However, before this isotope can become available to patients it needs to be processed. The new technology used by CIIC involves the use of an expensive starting material called enriched molybdenum (Mo-100). TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Humphrey Fonge

Student:

Saeed Shanehsazzadeh

Partner:

Canadian Isotope Innovations

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Exploring an intelligent recommender system for automated taxi dispatching systema

The output of this project which is a recommender system can be used by the partner organization in order to improve their automated taxi dispatching system. So, the process of dispatching a taxi request to drivers can be done faster with more customers’ satisfaction rate, because the driver which is assigned to drive a customer would have common interests with the customer in language, accent, pet-freeness of his/her vehicle, smoke-freeness of his/her vehicle, ….
Also, the taxi companies can defeat other competitor companies by using this new feature in their automated dispatching system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Saeed Samet

Student:

Arastoo Bozorgi

Partner:

WekaPLEX Tech Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Electrical Heating for Oil Sands Production

Traditional oil sands production techniques include mining and transporting the sands and in situ production using steam injection, Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD). This proposed method will replace or enhance SAGD by using primarily traditional vertical well bores and an induction heating method which will potentially allow the heating effect to expand in diameter as production continues compared to steam injection which relies on steam permeating out from a concentrated injector. Another major energy advantage is that the heating can occur at precisely controlled times to meet the availability of power from sources such as wind. This will be a completely despatchable load of value to the utility. Joslyn Energy will benefit from being able to exploit resources close to an infrastructure or terrain where other production methods are not feasible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Dunford

Student:

Ahmed Sherwali

Partner:

Joslyn Energy Development Incorporated

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of autonomous seating adjustments through subjective and objective measures

Sitting can become particularly problematic when individuals remain in a fixed position for a prolonged period of time. Pressure can develop in the areas of the body that are compressed by the seat, which can lead to a significant reduction in blood flow to the surrounding tissues. As a result, seat adjustability becomes necessary for the maintenance of good health since movement would help relieve pressure from areas of the body compressed by the seat. Using subjective and objective measures of comfort, a fully adjustable manual and new autonomous seating concept will be compared. The intent is to provide the partner organization with a thorough evaluation of the effectiveness of this new seating technology to meet consumer demands.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Andrews

Student:

Russel Boglitch

Partner:

Schukra of North America

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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