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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering - chemical / biological

Implementation and Evaluation of an Integrated Chiropractic Service for Musculoskeletal Conditions into the Canadian Forces Health Service – Year 2

Low back pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide. The Canadian Armed Forces (CF) has a greater incidence of LBP than the general population. LBP is responsible for a large proportion of medical releases in the CF with many cases resulting in lifelong pain and disability. Improved early access to evidence-based care could help prevent chronicity and recurrences, and reduce health care costs. The purpose of this project is to implement and evaluate a new inter-disciplinary, patient-centred health care service that includes chiropractic services for the management of LBP in the CF. The main outcomes are clinical (e.g., level of pain and function), and return to duty of CF members who require care for LBP. If successful, the partner organizations would benefit in fulfilling their mission to serve their members and the public by advancing the understanding and use of chiropractic care.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre Cote

Student:

Carol Cancelliere

Partner:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Elevate

Improving signal processing in hearing aids to support music and emotional speech – Year 2

Hearing aid research has traditionally focused on improving speech intelligibility for people with hearing loss, but there is increasing interest in addressing other aspects of hearing that contribute to quality of life, particularly music and other non-linguistic information. Listening to music through hearing aids is often dissatisfying due to distortions introduced by current algorithms. Hearing aids restore the intelligibility but not the emotional content of speech, which is carried by acoustic cues that are similar to salient dimensions of music. This project aims to refine hearing aid processing for music and to assess whether signal processing can clarify the emotional content of speech without compromising intelligibility. The partner organization will benefit from the advancement of hearing aid technology to better support hearing in everyday life. In particular, these advancements may lead more people with hearing impairment to adopt hearing aids and result in greater adherence to hearing aid use.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Russo

Student:

Huiwen Goy

Partner:

Ryerson University

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Elevate

User Centered Design and Usability of a mHealth intervention for COPD management

Mobile health (mHealth) strategies hold a great promise to enhance treatment outcomes while mitigating health care costs (Hayes et al., 2014). It allows health care providers to tailor treatments to each individual based on their lifestyle. The primary objective is to involve COPD patients and their health care providers in the development of a mobile health infrastructure that aims to improve COPD management.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Hawboldt

Student:

Meshari Alwashmi

Partner:

Sequence Bioinformatics

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Energy Planning Analytical Research

The Energy Planning department at BC Hydro looks at how the company can meet B.C.’s future electricity demand through conservation, generation and transmission, and through upgrades to existing infrastructure. As new resources require lead times to develop, BC Hydro must plan ahead so that the new resources are ready when we need them. The Energy Planning (EP) Analytical Research project is made up of three sub-projects that have the potential to improve the efficiency in which BC Hydro develops its residential and electric vehicle load forecast as well as the way BC Hydro ensures the reliability of its systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Curran Crawford

Student:

Pouya Amid

Partner:

BC Hydro

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Analysis and Optimization for Industrial Safety and Efficiency

Irwin’s Industrial Safety is a leading provider of safety consulting, safety training, and safety operations management. Over the last 4 years, Irwin’s Safety has compiled data on project safety and efficiency over a wide scope of projects. Moving forward, Irwin’s Safety seeks research into how this data can best be analyzed, visualized, and used to optimize future projects. Before data can be analyzed, data scripting will be applied to transform the data into a suitable format. Data analysis will include a variety of standard techniques, and develop custom methods appropriate for this data set. Data visualization will be used to help communicate the statistical findings to non-research orientated consumers. Finally, an optimal resource allocation model will be developed and analyzed. An algorithm will be designed to provide rapid solutions to the optimal resource allocation model, so future projects can be optimized.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Warren Hare

Student:

Hamid Afshari

Partner:

Irwin's Safety and Industrial Labour Services Ltd

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Social Media Impact Tool: Measuring ROI for Social Media Engagement

Currently there are no effective tools to capture and measure return on investment (ROI) in social media in conjunction with more traditional data points that come from sources such as Flyer Tracking and Point of Sale (POS) systems. Using visual analytics techniques, this project will develop and evaluate a set of ROI metrics that will incorporate available data points about shoppers and their purchasing patterns and will help Unilever Canada to (1) understand shoppers’ online behaviour, (2) reveal causal links between social media engagement and purchasing habits, and (3) establish effective ROI metrics for social media engagement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anatoliy Gruzd

Student:

Mahendra Vemula

Partner:

Unilever Canada Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Consumer goods

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Perceptual training in melanoma diagnosis using skin lesion images

Melanoma, the most deadly type of skin cancer, has increasing incidence and a high mortality rate. Early diagnosis of melanoma is currently the only way to reduce the mortality rate as well as the health care cost of treating melanoma. However, the existing approaches in training melanoma diagnosis are not effective. In this project, we will evaluate a perceptual approach, which mirrors how dermatologists improve their ability in melanoma diagnosis, to train melanoma diagnosis. This research will help the company to provide scientific evidence of whether the perceptual training program currently being developed by the company is in fact more effective than the existing training programs in the market. The ultimate goal of this project is to improve the survival rate of melanoma, and reduce the health care cost of treating melanoma in the late stages.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Masson

Student:

Buyun Xu

Partner:

1118604 BC LTD

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Optimizing the design and implementation of technology education programs to advance skills and diversity in information and communications technology (ICT) in Canada

There is ample evidence that increasing Canada’s innovation, productivity and competitive advantage depends on expanding its skilled digital workforce to both implement and adopt innovative technologies. Despite the pressing need to increase the digital skills and participation of underrepresented groups in information and communications technology (ICT) industry and programs to diversifying computer science, the numbers have remained persistently low. While some initiatives have demonstrated success, often it is transient and not sustained. Operating in 29 Canadian cities, Canada Learning Code (CLC) believes that computer programming and other technical skills are essential tools for building a skilled and competitive ICT sector and focuses on using innovative programming to make these tools more accessible to all Canadians. The purpose of this research project is to develop a framework for assessing the effectiveness and social return on investment of CLC programs and similar interventions and to provide input into program optimization and scaling.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wendy Cukier

Student:

Samantha Jackson

Partner:

Ladies Learning Code

Discipline:

Political science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Machine-Learning-Based Artistic Photo Manipulation and Stylization on Mobile Devices

Deep Learning is the new, and fast growing bread of systems based on artificial neural networks. These are phenomenal at learning patterns and generating new pattern that have the characteristics of the data the system was trained on. One of the main artistic and creative use of Deep Learning is to process images, pictures video. One typical task is that of style transfer by which the style of one image is used to shape the rendering of the one provided by the user. While most images are taken and manipulated by mobile devices, the deep learning algorithms required for style transfer and much more are not running on these more limited mobile hardware. This project aims to change this by porting Machine-Learning-based artistic photo manipulation and stylization on mobile devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Pasquier

Student:

Omid Alemi

Partner:

Generate Software Inc

Discipline:

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Low-damage deposition of transparent conductive oxides as top contacts for transparent organic light emitting diodes

Organic light emitting diodes, or ‘OLEDs’ have become a common technology in everyday displays such as mobile phones, laptops, and televisions. These types of devices rely on an OLED structure that uses ‘bottom-emission’, meaning that the top of the device consists of a non-transparent backplane, and the light and colours generated in the device are emitted through the transparent, bottom side of the device. In order to incorporate OLED technology into new and exciting applications such as heads up displays, smart windows, or augmented reality, the device must be fabricated so that it is completely transparent and capable of both ‘bottom emission’ and ‘top emission’. A significant challenge with a transparent OLED (TOLED) is that the transparent electrode which must be deposited directly on top of the light-generating organic layers can cause damage to the device and limit performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Lessard

Student:

Martin Lennox

Partner:

Angstrom Engineering Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Nordegg Member source rock quality and Early Jurassic ocean redox conditions based on core analysis and organic/inorganic geochemistry

Unconventional shale gas has become a common source of hydrocarbons in the past few decades with advances in extraction techniques such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Many hydrocarbon-bearing rocks that were once unobtainable are now available for oil and gas production; the Nordegg Member in northeastern British Columbia is one of these rocks units. Our project will involve characterising the Nordegg Member’s geological structure and geochemistry, as well as performing economic interpretations to assess the future exploration plans within the unit in the near future. In addition to the economic implication which will benefit our partners, geochemical data will shed insight on changes in local and global ocean conditions over the period that the Nordegg Member was deposited.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brian Kendall

Student:

Alexandra Kunert

Partner:

Sasol Canada

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Real-time Quantitative Analysis of Cannabinoids in Cannabis

The medical marijuana industry has attracted significant attention recently due to its impending legalization in Canada in the coming year. Along with legalization comes the need for accurate and dependable characterization of the components in the product that is to be consumed by the end user. Keystone Labs is a certified cannabis analysis lab with a growing client base. Hence, they are looking to increase their market share by developing a home testing kit that can be used by growers to monitor the plant’s chemical composition as it matures. This will guide the grower’s care plan for the plants such that desired compounds can be enhanced. Once the plant has the desired composition, the plant can then be shipped to Keystone Labs for final analysis and composition certification. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Serpe

Student:

Yongfeng Gao

Partner:

Keystone Labs Inc

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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