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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering - chemical / biological

Field Study of Community-Based Personal Support Workers’ Occupational Exposures to Injury Risk Factors

Personal Support Workers (PSWs) provide 70-80% of all paid home care. Unfortunately, they experience occupational injuries at more than twice the rate of the general population. These injuries increase costs for home care providers, reduce the availability of skilled workers, reduce workers’ quality of life, and impact the consistency of care that can be provided to clients.
This project is part of a larger study to directly measure the physical risk factors for common injuries as PSWs assist with daily activities in clients’ homes. This internship will focus on understanding how consistent these physical demands are when caring for a given client, and on making data analysis efficient, to improve the efficiency of the overall study. A better understanding of the physical demands of providing home care will allow home care agencies to improve their injury prevention programs and avoid the costs associated with PSW injuries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jack Callaghan

Student:

Jackie Zehr

Partner:

VHA Home HealthCare

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Cinema Sidewall – Aircraft Sidewall for Projection of Visual Content

With the rise in fuel prices, operators are constantly pushing aircraft manufacturers to find new ways to reduce their aircraft’s operating costs. One of the objectives of this project is to create a Bombardier toolkit for the C Series. This will allow the operators to input parameters such as the miss-rigging present on their control surfaces, missing components, damage that occurred to the aircraft during flight or on the ground. Using Bombardier’s proprietary information, the fuel burn occurring due to these issues can be computed. This data allows the operator to judge whether to undertake the corrective actions or to continue to fly the aircraft in an aerodynamically unclean state. Furthermore, this analytical data can be transformed into statistical data providing a great detail to the operators on how they C Series fleet is performing. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fengfeng Xi

Student:

Jasper Liu

Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace

Discipline:

Aerospace studies

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Program:

Accelerate

A survey of Pinot Noir Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast populations and grape quality in three Okanagan Valley vineyard sub-regions

Wine is produced by fermenting sugars in grape juice to ethanol by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae). The major BC viticulture area is located in the Okanagan valley, a 200km region that runs from north to south, which aims to produce high quality wines that can be distinguished based on terroir. Terroir is a term that describes all the environmental factors that influence the wine including climate, terrain, soil, grape varietal and microbial populations. To fully express the terroir, winemakers carry out spontaneous fermentations that rely on microbial populations associated with the grape berry and winery to carry out the fermentation. Pinot Noir grapes are successfully cultivated along the Okanagan valley and represent an ideal varietal to study microbial populations associated with terroir. Our proposed research is to identify the yeast populations associated with Pinot Noir grapes from 3 regions of the Okanagan valley. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vivien Measday

Student:

Elaine Cheng

Partner:

BC Wine Grape Council

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Improving Research to Practice: Investigating the Feasibility of Community Organizations Developing Methods to Ensure Implementation Efforts Address the Needs and Priorities of the Spinal Cord Injury Community

Members of the SCI community must be involved in the process of designing and implementing SCI research to ensure the largest impact possible. SCI Ontario, an organization that supports people with SCI, is strategically planning their efforts to ensure research is used in practice. Understanding the needs and priorities of SCI communities and their families is a key step for their strategic planning. They aim to develop a method that can establish agreement among over 2500 SCI community members about areas of research that need be implemented in practice. Our research will help develop this method and examine the feasibility of using the method to establish agreement on priorities within the SCI community. As a whole, our research will contribute to a growing body of research that aims to ensure research is used in practice.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Gainforth

Student:

Emily Giroux

Partner:

Spinal Cord Injury Ontario

Discipline:

Human physical performance and recreation

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

NRTEE 15 year update study: A comprehensive review of progress implementing the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy’s 2003 National Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy for Canada

After the NRTEE 2003 National Redevelopment Strategy for Canada, an in-depth review of the progress and status of the 14 recommendations offered will be completed through interviews of Canadian municipal and provincial governments and other stakeholders in the Brownfield Industry. Outcomes and recommendations will be formulated for consideration. This study will be presented at the CBN conference in June 2018 and the report will be made available to all participants and stakeholders through the CBN website and electronic avenues.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher De Sousa

Student:

Reanne Ridsdale

Partner:

Canadian Brownfields Network

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Structure-Property Relationships of Ethylene Polymers for Sealant Applications

Heat sealing is the most widely used sealing method in film packaging applications specifically in food industry. In this technique, two layers of film are melted and bonded together with the application of heat and pressure. In this project a rheological study (rheology and peeling) of a series of ethylene polymers will be performed to derive correlations between rheological properties and sealability for identification of optimum product properties. Good sealability of packaging of food products is crucial to public health as it ensures safety of the packaged goods and minimizes any leakage during transportation and handling. Good leak-free packaging also results in minimizing food waste for the consumer providing economic benefits and improves Canada’s sustainability efforts by reducing carbon footprint.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Savvas Hatzikiriakos

Student:

Marzieh Ebrahimi

Partner:

NOVA Research and Technology Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Improvement of Operation Efficiency in WRHA Hemodialysis Units Using Simulation Modeling

Hemodialysis (HD) Units are the ambulatory care clinic for patients with the chronic kidney disease. There are 136 beds/chairs for over 400 patients per day at 3 HD facilities in Winnipeg. Inefficient workflows were identified from the previous study. This research will search solutions using methods of the system modeling and simulation to identify areas of improvement for the renal program workflows. Simulation modeling will be used as a cost-effective tool to examine HD operations, identify barriers to workflows, and test alternative solutions. Due to the complexity of healthcare systems, decisions need to be much more evidence-based and made in near-real-time conditions. Simulation model will help analyzing and identifying these types of variability in care operations. The research solution can be applied to other Canadian HD centres.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qingjin Peng

Student:

Fatemeh Younesi Sinaki

Partner:

Seven Oaks Chronic Disease Innovation Centre Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

An ethical evaluation of HIV dried-blood spot testing in research and access to results for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Canada

Sex Now is a community-based health survey for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in Canada. The next round of Sex Now will be conducted at LGBTQ Pride events in 8 Canadian cities and participants will be asked to provide small blood spot samples for HIV testing. This will majorly impact our understanding of HIV prevalence and prevention across the country, but, since this is the first time the Sex Now team is doing HIV testing as part of its survey, there are serious ethical concerns around how to give participants access to their test results and how best to follow-up with people who have a positive test result. Working with the Community-Based Research Centre for Gay Men’s Health, the intern will develop a way to give HIV test results to participants in Sex Now and evaluate its practicality in the research world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Gilbert

Student:

Aidan Ablona

Partner:

Community-Based Research Centre

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a single photon detector with a femtosecond time gate.

Quantum interference is the reason why we see an interference pattern in Young’s double-slit experiment even when sending a stream of single particles (photons, electrons, neutrons, etc.). It is also closely linked to quantum decoherence, one of the biggest issues currently holding back quantum computers. IPL is investigating Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) processes related to quantum interference using high intensity lasers. To this end, IPL is currently developing an extremely sensitive light detector capable of counting individual photons (light particles). The project’s two main objectives are first, to finish the design and testing of a preliminary version of the detector, and second, to integrate this preliminary version into an engineering prototype. This state of the art detection system will uniquely position IPL in the competitive optical characterization market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Claude Kieffer

Student:

Nicolas Moreau

Partner:

IPL

Discipline:

Journalism / Media studies and communication

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Connections and Engagement Survey Analysis and Dissemination Project

The Connections and Engagement Survey Breakdown Project will provide a deeper understanding of relevant community health issues in the Metro Vancouver area by studying various elements associated with civic engagement and citizen participation. Using data collected by the Vancouver Foundation, this project will produce several reports on key issues of neighbourhood and community well-being and engagement and several reports pertaining to the engagement profiles of various cities in the region. This research will be publicly available and will inform future decisions made by the Vancouver Foundation and possibly other institutions in the region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Meg Holden

Student:

Julianne King

Partner:

Vancouver Foundation

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

NMR analysis of the enzymatically produced propylene glycol mono- and di- esters of canola oil

Emulsifiers as multifunctional additives can develop low-caloric, high-quality foods. Beside the monoacylglycerols (MAGs), or mixtures with diacylglycerols (DAGs), propylene glycol (1,2-propanediol) esters (PGEs) are the commonly used emulsifiers in the food industry. Emulsifiers are currently produced using costly and environmentally unfriendly “enzyme in solvent” systems and also have some shortcomings in certain food applications. This research will determine the feasibility of a novel method of PGEs manufacture-enzymatic catalysis in supercritical carbon dioxide-using canola oil, which we propose will be a cost effective and “green” solution to current solvent systems and will allow for improved health and food product formulation attributes compared to current options in the marketplace. NMR analysis of the PGEs which are produced in supercritical CO2 (SCCO2) as a low temperature technology is the focus of this study. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Scanlon

Student:

Nazanin Vafaei

Partner:

Canola Council of Canada

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Research and development of real-time voltage control and loss minimization method in power distribution grids using micro-PMU and distributed reactive power generation

Enbala Power Networks Inc., a Canadian leader in distributed energy resource management, and the University of British Columbia, Okanagan have teamed up to develop real-time voltage control and loss minimization method for power distribution grids integrating large-scale renewable energy sources. The proposed method uses micro-Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) and distributed reactive power control to achieve real-time voltage control and transmission loss minimization. The proposed method will be implemented in Enbala’s industrial control platform – Symphony Control, and will be tested using OPAL-RT real-time simulator in UBCO power lab. It is expected that the proposed real-time voltage control method will improve voltage quality and grid efficiency when large-scale non-dispatchable renewable energy, e.g. solar and winding generations, are integrated in power distribution grids. The research and development efforts will help Enbala maintaining its leadership in distributed energy resource management and smart grid technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Liwei Wang

Student:

Brittney Kerns

Partner:

Enbala Power Networks Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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