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Assessing bacterial kidney disease resistance in a commercial Atlantic salmon strain

The aim of this project is to determine which families are resistant to bacterial kidney disease, a bacterial infection that affects both wild and farmed Atlantic salmon. To do this many families of Atlantic salmon from a commercial aquaculture company are to be purposefully infected with the bacteria that causes the disease to establish which families have a high rate of survival and which have a low rate of survival. This is called a disease challenge, and is performed under controlled conditions to control environmental variation, increasing the detection of genetic variation of BKD survival. Knowing how each family performs in the challenge will enable the company to make breeding decisions such that families that performed well will be selected to pass their genetic superiority onto the next generation of Atlantic salmon, hopefully reducing the occurrence of BKD at production sea cage sites.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elizabeth Boulding

Student:

Partner:

Cooke Aquaculture Inc (Saint John, NB)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

UAVs for Building Envelope Inspection and Energy Audits

Space Heating and Cooling in residential, commercial, and institutional buildings accounted for roughly 20% of Canada’s overall energy. Early detection and repair of building envelope defects ensures continued energy performance and building longevity, thus energy audits are a necessary, but time-intensive process using today’s methods. Utilizing the emergent technology of small unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, or drones, a complete exterior survey of a building can be captured quickly. Equipped with an infrared camera, and the application of recent leaps in quantitative thermography and building energy simulation, these aerial survey platforms provide a unique opportunity for the development of a more cost-effective and automated energy auditing technique, as well as an advantageous business opportunity for UAV services companies and civil/municipal engineers responsible for the monitoring and maintenance of built environment infrastructure.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya

Student:

Partner:

High Angle Imaging Systems;Morrison Hershfield Limited

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Impacts of the Privacy and User Experience requirements on the implementation of the Identity Networks based on distributed Hashtrees

Nowadays, a number of public and private organizations have implemented various identity management solutions to manage authentication; authorization privileges of their users within or across system and enterprise boundaries. The idea of using a third party identity provider (IdP) to access a relying party (RP) is not new, and both RP and IdP have much to gain from such solution. A federated identity ecosystem in which RPs and IdPs have to connect only once has further benefits. While deployed identity brokerage systems provide great utility to their participants, it has been noted that the principles upon which they are designed have several security and privacy gaps. Potential shortcomings of federated identity access systems stem from a central observation point, where a ‘honest but curious’ or ‘compromised’ broker may gain unauthorized access to the data. It is clear that federated identity ecosystems need to evolve to address the challenges described.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benjamin Rossman

Student:

Partner:

SecureKey Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Optimisation de la traction d’un système de propulsion électrique pour vélo

L’entreprise Alizeti souhaite mettre sur le marché une solution abordable permettant de convertir un vélo conventionnel en vélo électrique. Le projet de l’entreprise s’inscrit dans le développement d’alternatives aux modes de transport traditionnels, notamment l’automobile.
La technologie développée par l’entreprise repose sur une plateforme novatrice intégrée dans un porte-bagages de vélo. Le mécanisme de propulsion de ce système repose sur une roue à friction qui est en contact direct avec le pneu. Ce type de transmission nécessite d’appliquer une force entre la roue à friction et le pneu pour permettre au couple du moteur d’être transmis à la roue arrière du vélo.
Pour tirer le meilleur rendement possible du système de propulsion, il est nécessaire de commander cette force afin de minimiser les pertes dans le système. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lyne Woodward

Student:

Partner:

Alizeti Unimobil Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Construction et suivi de deux réacteurs passifs biochimiques pour le traitement du drainage minier en climat nordique

L’industrie minière est un secteur économique important au Canada, mais qui entraine des impacts environnementaux importants. Les problèmes de pollution associés à l’activité minière sont principalement liés à la contamination des eaux, soit le drainage minier (DM), qui doit être traité. Une approche efficace est le réacteur passif biochimique, très utilisé en climat tempéré ou semi-aride. Cependant, sa mise en place en climat nordique est plus difficile et moins connue. Donc, le présent projet a pour objectif d’évaluer la performance du réacteur passif biochimique pour le traitement du drainage minier, à faible température et forte salinité. Deux réacteurs pilote seront ainsi construits sur le site de la Mine Raglan et suivis sur une période de 4 à 6 mois. Les résultats obtenus à l’issu du projet permettront éventuellement de mettre en place un système de traitement passif à grande échelle sur le site minier du partenaire industriel ou un autre.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carmen Mihaela Neculita

Student:

Partner:

Glencore Canada Corporation - Raglan Mine

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Testing plant-derived products as biopesticides for plant pathogen management

Like humans and other animals, plants also get sick, exhibit disease symptoms, and even die. Over the past 100 years, farmers have heavily relied upon chemical fertilizers and pesticides in order to increase crop productivity and quality. However, the environmental pollution caused by excessive use and misuse of agrochemicals has led to considerable changes in people’s attitudes towards the use of pesticides in agriculture. As an alternative,, biopesticides, derived from natural materials, are being developed to replace some of the most problematic, pollution creating and carcinogenic chemical pesticides currently in use. This research will investigate the performance of plant-derived products as biopesticides on several different plant pathogens in vitro and in vivo, for better understanding of their disease control spectrum. This project will be under the collaboration of Dr. Li lab at UBC and Terramera, for further improving the formulations of available biopesticides to be more effective.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xin Li

Student:

Partner:

Terramera Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Using Analytics for the Optimization of Product Support Data

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are used to store data records of activities underlying various business processes, from which Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are derived, providing visibility into the organization. How well the recorded information adheres to business processes and how well those are defined and implemented affect data quality, determining how KPIs accurately portray the present and future state of the organization. KPIs derived from ERP data can sometimes differ greatly or even conflict with business process models, producing an incomplete or erroneous view of the organization. Process Mining, a multidisciplinary field at the convergence of data-mining and business process management, can be applied to analyze patterns in ERP data, extracting process workflow patterns that can reconcile conflicts between ERP data and business process models. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Ester

Student:

Partner:

Finning International

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Commercial Services; Manufacturing and Construction

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’un outil d’Analyse du cycle de vie simplifié pour l’opérationnalisation de l’écoconception dans les PME

Plusieurs entreprises ont un intérêt pour intégrer l’écoconception à leur processus de développement de produits. Cependant, peu d’outils sont disponibles pour obtenir l’impact environnemental d’une décision au cours de ce processus. N’ayant pas un portrait clair des enjeux environnementaux ces aspects sont difficilement des enjeux centraux dans la définition du produit. L’outil développé doit permettre de quantifier un impact environnemental rapidement et en ligne avec les cadences de développement de produits en entreprises. Il doit être flexible et donner plusieurs bonnes approximations rapidement plutôt qu’une réponse détaillée quelques fois par année, comme c’est le cas avec les analyse du cycle de vie (ACV) conventionnelles. Cet outil facilitera un accompagnement en écoconception davantage en ligne avec la cadence des activités et les prises de décisions des entreprises partenaires de l’IDP.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mourad Ben Amor

Student:

Partner:

Institut de développement de produits

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

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 T Bassuoni

Student:

Partner:

Vector Corrosion Technologies Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Manitoba

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:

Partner:

Acerta Analytics Solutions Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a SEMA3C targeted therapeutic for treatment of clear cell renal cell carcinoma, lung cancer, breast cancer and colorectal cancer

The major focus of this proposal is to perform preclinical studies to support clinical development of a novel inhibitor for treatment of different caners such as breast, lung, colorectal and kidney. We have recently developed a novel therapeutic protein that selectively inhibits multiple pathways for treatment of advanced prostate cancer. A goal of this project will be to explore the potential utility of this protein in treatment of cancers for which the inhibitors of these pathways have been clinically validated targets and drugs targeting these pathways are effective in their treatment and have received regulatory approval. These proposed studies will help guide clinical trial design and inclusion criteria for first-in-human clinical trials and future evaluation of biologically-rational combination strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher J Ong

Student:

Partner:

The Prostate Centre’s Translational Research Initiative for Accelerated Discovery and Development

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Human factors in drilling automation

The efficient utilization of automation systems necessitates a clear understanding of the interaction of the human operator, the automation system and any automated routines being run. Precision Drilling is installing the newest generation of drilling automation control systems on their fleet of rigs and wishes to understand both the interaction of the human driller with the automation system by creating a monitoring application which will record all human inputs to the system as well as catalog the routine or operation the automation system executes during a normal drilling operation. By cataloging and analyzing this data, inefficiencies will be identified – specifically ones where the human interrupts automation routines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roman J Shor

Student:

Partner:

Precision Drilling Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

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