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Examining Vocational Opportunities and Supports for Adults with ASD

The project addresses the under-studied area of vocational service for adults with ASD. The study will implement a mixed method research design consisting of: (1) an environmental scan examining vocational services in Alberta, (2) interviews and/or focus groups with adults with ASD and their caregivers examining their experiences and needs related to vocational supports, and (3) interviews and/or focus groups with employers or service agency personnel reviewing their processes and needs related to supporting adults with ASD. It is anticipated that the study will result in a greater understanding of needs, barriers and opportunities related to vocational success specific to ASD. Community practice and policy implications and recommendations will be provided, along with an extensive knowledge translation strategy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Nicholas

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating nanostructured local data storage and off-grid powering for the adaptive corrosion protection system

During the proposed internships, smart-grid integrated adaptive corrosion protection system (ACPS) will be developed as a stand-alone unit to provide optimum corrosion protection along with the nanostructured local data storage and off-grid powering. This will allow the continuous monitoring of the corrosion status of the metal infrastructures (e.g. transmission towers) along with the power-grid monitoring data. The proposed system can be directly monitored from the centralized control-room. Hence, it will significantly reduce and/or eliminate human interaction for an efficient and a cost-effective. Besides, the proposed stand-alone system also activates an alert flag if corrosion status of the target infrastructure shifts out of the normal range. Because of these technological benefits the wider adoption of the smart-grid integrated ACPS is anticipated in a wide range of practical applications.
Finally, this collaborative project is intended to provide protection solution for the transmission towers as well as the corrosion-prone underground structure for the partner organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bozena Kaminska

Student:

Partner:

BC Hydro (Burnaby, BC);Powertech Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Physiological Assessment and Analysis of the Physical Demand of Riding a Snowmobile

The purpose of the present study is to evaluate scientifically the physical demand associated with the safe operation of a snowmobile under typical (normal) riding conditions experienced by North American snowmobilers. We will quantify the physical demand of snowmobile riding and compare this to national recommendations for the promotion of health and fitness, as well as other comparable sports. The mission of the Canadian Council of Snowmobile Organizations is dedicated to provide safe, organized and responsible snowmobiling in Canada. The partner organization and its members believe that snowmobiling may play a role in a healthy active lifestyle, but evidence as to the legitimacy of this claim are lacking. Such evidence could also prove important for provincial and federal government allocations and decisions regarding things such as land-use, tax credits and funding. As such, the partner will benefit from the generation of objective scientific data about their sport.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jamie Burr

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Council of Snowmobile Organizations;University of Guelph

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation on object recognition on very large volumes of image data

Istuary Innovation Labs, Inc partners with innovators, entrepreneurs, technical talent and experts in North America to build technology companies for fast-growing markets, such as China, and to capitalize on quickly expanding and unmet demand. Founded in 2013, Istuary’s core business consists of Innovation Labs and Idea Labs. We partner with Istuary Venture Capital to fund development of technology internally through Innovation Labs and externally through Idea Labs.
Investigation on object recognition on very large volumes of image data will be conducted. Intern is expected to design/apply computational and statistical techniques to automatically clean the large image dataset so that clean data can be used in object recognition. The candidate needs good understanding about programming languages, databases, data mining, R, Hadoop, Spark and similar technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leonid Chindelevitch

Student:

Partner:

Istuary Innovation Labs Inc (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Localisation et reconnaissance de véhicules routiers à partir d’images 2D

Le but de ce projet est de développer des algorithmes intelligents capables de reconnaître et de localiser en temps réel des véhicules filmés par des caméras de surveillance positionnées le long d’axes routiers. Alors que la plupart des méthodes issues de l’état de l’art utilisent de l’information vidéo pour détecter et reconnaître des véhicules, notre objectif est d’y arriver à partir d’images 2D seulement. L’intérêt pour un tel modèle est de traiter des vidéos dont le débit est de très faible fréquence (une image par 5 secondes ou moins). Afin d’accélérer le développement, nous avons mis sur pied lors d’un projet antérieur la plus grosse base de données annotées au monde permettant d’entraîner ce type de modèle. Les travaux réalisés dans le cadre de ce projet s’articulent autour de cette base de données.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Student:

Partner:

Miovision Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

An Engaged Community for Shared Learning: Internships Contribute to Capacity Building in Northern Saskatchewan

The International Centre for Northern Governance and Development (ICNGD) was created to help focus attention on opportunities for building capacity in northern Saskatchewan. An overarching goal was to establish local to global relationships with the Circumpolar North in support of education, research and economic prosperity. The university, industry and northern communities work together to help students learn in an environment that is context based, relevant education and research in support of the north. The research mission is advanced through graduate learner training in community based, partner orientated internships. Learners are exposed to innovative leaders in industry and community development through initiatives such as internships designed to conduct community based projects. Most important to the design of the internship model is the potential for project outcomes to not only address social determinants but to inspire youth within the communities to further their education.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ken Coates;Loleen Berdahl;Bram Noble;Ken Coates;Dwight Newman;Lois Berry;Lee Swanson;Greg Poelzer;Jeanie Wills;Priscilla Settee;Karla Williamson;Heather Exner-Pirot

Student:

Partner:

Cameco Corporation (Saskatoon, SK)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Development and Demonstration Engine Technology for Class 8 Heavy Duty Trucks Fueled by Waste Hydrogen

Hydra Energy Corporation Commercial Demonstration Project will be based in Prince George, British Columbia 12.4 MT/day of waste hydrogen will be captured, purified and transported to an onsite hydrogen refueling station from which (at least) 53 Class 8 tractor-trailer trucks will refuel daily. Hydra’s demonstration project can provide a significant reduction in fleet greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions, Particulate Matter and other air emissions. Hydra is currently testing the first prototype dual-fuel hydrogen/diesel heavy-duty class 8 truck in North America. And, in collaboration with the University of British Columbia (UBC) is conducting thorough experimental investigation of the potential fuel efficiency improvements and emissions reductions that may be realized by fueling an internal combustion engine with hydrogen and diesel fuel at various. The R&D project results will advance the scientific knowledge of hydrogen in internal combustion engines, and will help to expand the availability of clean energy transportation technologies in and beyond B.C.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Kirchen

Student:

Partner:

Hydra Energy Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing; Utilities

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Diagnostic Screening for Conscious Awareness in Brain Injury and Disease: Developing the Visual Component

Presently medical personnel do not have adequate tools to assess disorders of conscious awareness after severe brain injury if the patients have difficulty speaking & moving. These people are frequently deemed unresponsive when they may be “in there” but unable to respond. Our research team has developed a rapidly administerable, portable system that measures brain waves in response to sounds & spoken sentences. Once diagnosis has been established, personnel are more equipped to make decisions regarding a patient’s candidacy for rehabilitation. Further, the test is repeatable so changes in patient function can be measured over time. Although this was a breakthrough, the team realized that many patients could not be tested with the auditory protocol because they could not hear, did not speak English beforehand or may have aphasia (difficulty understanding/formulating language). To address this shortcoming, my research involves developing visual stimuli to assess these patients & provide a more thorough clinical picture. Military personnel are at significant risk for severe combat associated brain injuries. This diagnostic & monitoring tool will be useful to soldiers, veterans & civilians alike. It has remarkable clinical relevance & fills a critical void in health care.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruce Dick;Ryan D’Arcy

Student:

Partner:

Royal Canadian Legion (Ponoka, AB)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Automatic 3D reconstruction of Indoor Environments from Consumer-graded Cameras

With the increase demand of 3D models in urban environment, automatic indoor modeling has attracted more attention for human trajectory identification, facility management and indoor navigation. To reconstruct indoor models quickly and reliably, this project will propose a new indoor reconstruction method to automatically generate indoor semantic building models through building ground maps and images from consumer-graded cameras. The image of building ground maps will be over-segmented and later semantically classified as ceilings, walls and other indoor elements. The 3D models of indoor elements will be later reconstructed from extracted geometric information and semantic labeling. Finally, multiple images from consumer-graded cameras will be registered with the generated model. The advantage of this proposed method is that it fully combines semantic information from building ground maps and texture from multiple images. Therefore, it will automatically reconstruct indoor models with lower cost.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gunho Sohn

Student:

Partner:

Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée Research Centre

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Comparative analysis of reliability-surrogate measures using an ensemble of realistic water distribution networks

To evaluate the reliability of a water distribution system, surrogate measures are commonly used because of its easy computation and intuitive behavior. Some recent researchers have acknowledge the need to identify correlations between these indexes in order to select the ones that may be measuring similar properties of the networks and therefore are not adding further knowledge on how to make the systems more reliable. In order to evaluate these correlations between reliability-surrogate indexes assuring both appropriate conditions for the evaluation of flow-related indexes, and statistical significance of the found correlations, it is needed a set of realistic case studies. The research proposal is to use an ensemble of systems developed by the student in early stages of his PhD program to evaluate the correlations of the reliability-surrogate indexes using a fast and tested design algorithm as the one developed by the host supervisor. The result would be a series of correlations between indexes that may lead to recommendations on which ones are representative of the reliable behavior of a system. This results and recommendations are planned to be included in a publication for an international conference of water distribution systems (e.g. CCWI, WDSA, HIC).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Filion

Student:

Partner:

SASTRA Deemed University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Restoring native grassland function in urban environment; implications for soil-plant relations

Fescue prairie has reduced in Western Canada, because of human activities including housing development and land clearing. Urban development can impact natural ecosystems by eliminating the majority of native species, thus changing the richness and composition of the species. Strategic restoration efforts may reduce the effects of urban expansion on native ecosystem by protecting natural habitat and re-establishing modified habitat. Larch Park is an Edmonton residential development area, to which land reclamation and restoration ecology have been applied to rebuild native ecosystems (grassland) instead of turf grasses to reduce the impacts of urbanization. By rebuilding soils and planting native communities in Larch Park we believe that ecosystem function and wildlife habitat will improve to something more similar to natural grassland with less maintenance costs including watering, fertilization and weed invasion resistance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

M Derek MacKenzie

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

A statistical method for competing risk survival analysis with clustered big data

Over the last few years, the data revolution occurred with the emergence of “Big data”. In medical field, the term big data refers to large databases in terms of patients and/or information from varied sources. Nevertheless, heterogeneity is encountered in this kind of data. Indeed, data arise from different medical centers. Furthermore, we can’t perform traditional statistical methods on these large databases: major problem are multicollinearity and overfitting. Lots of regularization methods have been proposed in order to adapt classical methods. Mittal et al. have challenged to adapt survival analysis methods to these emerging data sets. Survival analyses consist in modelling time to event in presence of censoring (unobserved event). One of the main assumption of the most popular survival model is the non-informative censoring which means that censoring is independent of the event time. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mary Thompson

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris Descartes

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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