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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

10%
Computer science
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Engineering
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Engineering - biomedical
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Examining Best Practices of Engineers Who Have Commercialized Technologies

Entrepreneurship is the embodiment of innovation and its presence is a significant indicator of the power of an economy. Engineering is an essential sector for production of high technology products, services, and jobs, and is often at the forefront of innovation. This research aims to strengthen the current understanding of entrepreneurial success of engineers in Ontario. Data will be gathered from several academic, and business sources, as well as practicing entrepreneurs with engineering backgrounds. This data is expected to yield quantifiable and qualifiable metrics that are linked to engineering entrepreneurs’ success, and will be summarized in a report. Select businesses will also contribute to a success-cases document. A best-practices document will be produced from a combination of the research and the in-depth case studies. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tamer El-Diraby

Student:

Edmund Konroyd-Bolden

Partner:

Ontario Society of Professional Engineers

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Improving the Performance of Forages on the Canadian Prairies

In 2012, the estimated value of forage in Canada was $5.1 Billion. Forages are the foundation for the beef and dairy sectors which have a combined economic activity of $50 Billion. However we have recently seen a loss of nearly 2.2 Million acres of pasture land across Canada, which means productivity from our remaining forage lands must improve for the future competitiveness of the beef industry. This project contains 4 research activities on alternative forages and improved technologies that will increase the productivity and quality of the forage industry in Saskatchewan and Canada. New legume forages such as sainfoin and low lignin alfalfa will be researched for their suitability and performance on the Canadian Prairies. The application of new near infrared spectroscopy analysis to determine forage quality will also be studied. Finally, the intern will gain experience to build a foundation to convert into a permanent researcher in the forage industry to help fill the current research capacity gap.

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Faculty Supervisor:

H.A. Lardner

Student:

Michele Simili da Silva

Partner:

Saskatchewan Forage Council

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Aging and life prediction of Li-ion batteries

In this project, the effective life of advanced Li-ion batteries will be assessed using experimental tools and predictive modeling. Li-ion batteries have emerged as an alternative source of energy on-board cars, i.e., electric vehicles (EVs). Unlike internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, EVs suffer from performance degradation over driving and idle time posing limitations on their widespread deployment in the market. The life target for Li-ion batteries determined by the Department of Energy is in the range of 8 to 10 years of service with 80% of cell capacity being considered as the end of life. Examining battery performance degradation experimentally over such a long period of time is extremely costly and, even if doable, would fall behind in the examination of new technologies. As such, predictive modeling comes in use as a powerful approach to reduce cost and shorten the investigation time for a particular battery technology. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Fowler

Student:

Mohammad Farkhondeh Borazjani

Partner:

Newtech Power

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Advanced manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Performance analytics and monitoring in ice-hockey

In professional sports, sustained performance largely depends on having the best players healthy and free of injury. Player testing and monitoring has become a key area of development for many professional teams in order to track players’ health and performance. The purpose of this project is to build on the partner organization’s player monitoring program to identify key sport performance indicators and help in the team’s decision-making process. The project will be implementing new performance and musculoskeletal assessments and combine the results with various on-ice metrics to better understand variations in player’s performance and health status. The ultimate goal is to enhance the team’s performance while keeping the players healthy in order to have a long and successful career.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Tremblay

Student:

Simon Deguire

Partner:

Montreal Canadiens

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a continuous fluidized bed biomass torrefaction technology

There have been great interests on the utilization of biomass as a potentially renewable and sustainable energy source for greenhouse gas mitigation. In British Columbia and Quebec, abundantly available biomass residues are potential renewable energy sources if effectively utilized. In BC alone, there are estimated 32 million tonne per year of biomass residues available, but only about two million tonnes are made into pellets each year, with majority of them being exported to Europe due to the lack of effective biofuel conversion and pollution control technologies, preventing the development of a sustainable domestic biofuel market.
This proposed project will support our recent efforts in further developing a novel energy-efficient fluidized bed torrefaction process for the production of water-resistant, high energy density and durable torrefied wood pellets for domestic applications in thermal power plants. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaotao Bi

Student:

Dening Jia

Partner:

GloGreen Technology inc

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing the Impact of Older Adults’ Casino Recreational Bus Trips

The Assessing the Impact of Older Adults Casino Recreational Bus Trips study will assist the Older Adult Centres’ Association of Ontario (OACAO) in supporting their member organizations who offer casino bus trips. The OACAO is comprised of Older Adult Centres throughout Ontario, many of which offer recreational bus trips to their clients. However, it is not clear if casino bus trips are an overall benefit to older adults or if the harm that is sometimes associated with these trips outweighs the positive impacts. Once these results are understood the research project will make recommendations to maximize the benefits of older adult recreational casino bus trips while mitigating any harms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sean Doherty

Student:

Anthony Piscitelli

Partner:

Gambling Research Exchange Ontario

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Sports and recreation

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Trend analysis of the adoption of digital technologies within the aerospace industry

This internship is part of CRIAQ’s structuring project “CRIAQ-1645 Digital Aerospace”, whose goal is to identify converging trends between aerospace and information and communication technologies (ICT). This project will help in program orientation, for inferring R&D needs in the short, medium and long-term, so to develop digital capabilities that will be more and more important for aerospace companies. For CRIAQ, this project will help in the development of its own strategic roadmap for transforming the local aerospace cluster into a world reference within the emerging “digital aerospace” domain. The project comprises the analysis of pertinent documents (publications and patents) for the identification of convergence trends within the so-called “digital aerospace” domain, which will be then validated with experts in these two fields. The specific goal of this internship is the discussion of the trends found in the bibliometric analysis with Quebec scholars engaged in these domains.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fabiano Armellini

Student:

Nicolas Dufresne

Partner:

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Program:

Accelerate

A Context Aware, Lightweight, and Adaptive Authentication and Authorization

With increasing security risks in critical network infrastructures and emerging cloud technologies with shared capabilities, as well as increasing regulatory requirements on privacy, and data protection, there is a growing need for new approaches to manage security and privacy compliance. The main related challenges are (a) context-aware and fine-grained security enabling efficient real-time enforcement of authentication and authorization (A&A) and federation of security services between the global ICT providers, service providers and the connected devices, (b) optimized and adaptable encryption services to reach end to end security between service providers and connected devices. Ericsson believes the above challenges represent a promising opportunity to rethink the design of security solutions towards a novel generation of enforcement mechanisms that are autonomous, context-aware, and extendable. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chamseddine Talhi

Student:

Rasel Chowdhury

Partner:

Ericsson Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

The intelligent virtual agent as a patient Personalized companion

In this project the intern will develop an intelligent virtual concierge and integrate it with Curatio’s social network platform. The intelligent concierge will learn about each user over time and act as a personal assistant of the user in using the social network platform.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Russell Greiner

Student:

Tanvir Sajed

Partner:

Curatio Networks Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Tree to Home Scoping

This research aims to identify the challenges and opportunities that exist within and amongst First Nations communities for creating culturally appropriate and resilient housing models and local economies. It will build understanding around what is required to transform the current housing system from one that uses external labour, resources and businesses to one that promotes local livelihoods, value-added businesses and local resource use within a First Nations culturally focused bioregional economy. To accomplish this the intern will investigate financing options, policy and legislative constraints or opportunities, value-added services, and the ways in which First Nation led land use plans can be operationalized to stimulate local economic development. This research will play a key role in forwarding Ecotrusts’s mission to develop alternative approaches to economic development that can generate greater long term benefits for communities of place in terms of improved social, cultural, ecological and financial outcomes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Terre Satterfield

Student:

Anthony Persaud

Partner:

Ecotrust Canada

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Aboriginal affairs

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Effectiveness of EarlyDetect, a psychiatric assessment program, using a mobile APP interface

Mental health illness cost over $50 billion in the Canadian economy annually, and is prevalent at workplace. The cost and prevalence of menial health illness can be greatly mitigated with early detection and intervention. EarlyDetect is a program developed by Chokka Center for Integrative Health for convenient, accurate and reliable self-assessment of mental illness, and has been validated in a pen-and-paper form. The current project is to develop a fully functional mobile APP version of the EarlyDetect, and to study whether testing through a mobile APP will generate the same high quality diagnosis from the pen-and-paper version of the program.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jason Harley

Student:

Yang Liu

Partner:

Chokka Center for Integrative Health

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

IEC 61850-Based Centralized Intelligent Station-Level Protection for Power Systems with Multi-Technology Distributed Energy Resources

Protection systems perform vital function in power distribution systems to ensure safety of public and equipment during network faults, and usually designed assuming a single power source supply. Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are fast becoming an integral part of most Electric Power Systems around the world. Improvement in reliability, efficiency, power quality, and reduction in greenhouse emissions are some of the reasons behind this. However, the integration of DERs in distribution systems will result in structural changes causing a bidirectional power flow and variable fault current level. Depending on the DER penetration level and technology type, this could result in the failure of the existing protection schemes and their coordination. This project proposes to develop an innovative, reliable, communication-based Centralized Intelligent Station-level Protection (CISP) system using emerging technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Athula Rajapakse

Student:

Adeyemi Adewole

Partner:

RTDS Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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