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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Engineering - biomedical
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Exploring action plans for enhancing community sustainability in Baie Verte

The mining industry forms an integral part to the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador. The island of Newfoundland is particularly important to the NL mining industry, as it houses several active mining operations, as well as minerals exploration and developments in several areas including the Baie Verte peninsula. As mining operations are noted as impacting and contributing to the sustainability of communities, the proposed research seeks to understand and give an overview of the sustainability vision of Baie Verte, assess the state of sustainability in Baie Verte, and recommend community action plans that can help enhance sustainability in Baie Verte. In doing so, the project will rely on review of community documents, review of literature, a three-capital based sustainability assessment framework, public surveys, and consultations with community stakeholders.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kelly Vodden

Student:

Rashidatu Mohammed Uthman

Partner:

Rambler Metals and Mining PLC

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Evolution of resource revenue sharing in resource-rich countries: characteristics and implementation

This research intends to equip the stakeholders with better understanding of the successful applications of revenue sharing mechanisms at national and local levels in resource-rich countries. The work will identify the “new norms” of the industry and government in resource revenue sharing arrangements and provide a description of the model approach on resource revenue sharing with a long-term implementation and benefits. The lessons and priorities of the international practices around the resource revenue sharing would help to find the common ground on the evolving topic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dirk van Zyl

Student:

Aligermaa Bayarsaikhan

Partner:

C3 Alliance Corp

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a product for outdoor temporary markings

The world is full of painted surfaces of a variety of colours and the paint industry has evolved to improve colours, longer last colour intensity, alter finishing and cover a myriad of different surfaces. However, there has been a lack of development in temporary markings or coatings that last from hours to days. This project explores the development of four paint colours that can be dry sprayed for outside recreational applications, such as temporary lines on a grassy field or a temporary mural. Harnessing the sun’s energy, the colours will fade in definable timeframes. In addition, the colours employed are safe for consumption, suggesting that the coatings will be friendly to the environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Todd Sutherland

Student:

Olga Kravchenko

Partner:

2000169 AB Inc

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Altitude & Heat – environmental synergies to optimize human performance

The environmental stress of altitude and heat have both been shown to elicit divergent adaptive responses and are used by elite athletes to augment training adaptation and subsequent performance.   Indeed, 3-4 weeks at moderate altitudes can increase the body’s natural erythropoietin (EPO) responses, raising hemoglobin by 4-6% and enhancing endurance performance.  Conversely, as little as 5-7 days of exercise induced heat acclimation can increase blood volume by 5-10%, resulting in increased tolerance to heat, increased VO2max /cardiac output and improve endurance performance as well. However, the concept of “cross-tolerance” has recently emerged, which is the use of heat and altitude synergistically to augment adaptation and performance; however studies in humans are sparse.  Furthermore, there is an  opportunity to implement  non-invasive / wearable near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technology to further our understanding of peripheral mechanisms of muscle oxygenation/utilization in elite athletes in various environmental conditions, and to better elucidate performance determinants in endurance sport.  

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Koehle

Student:

Gareth Sandford

Partner:

Canadian Sport Institute Pacific

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Design of a Multi-modal Electronic Stethoscope for the Digital Acquisition and Automatic Diagnosis of Auscultation Signals

The proposed research project aims to develop a multi-modal stethoscope, containing superior digitized heart and lung sounds, telemedicine capabilities and assistive diagnostics. This is achieved by leveraging new advancements in piezo, microphone, wireless and machine learning technologies. The project will investigate these technologies and integrate them into custom made electronics and mechanical designs to achieve an optimal digitized sound that provides superior auscultation capabilities to medical professionals for lung and heart sound diagnosis. Furthermore, a streaming application will be created to visualize, store and share the digitized data for demonstration of telemedicine capabilities. Machine learning algorithms developed during the research project will also be applied to the data to provide a prototype of the assistive diagnostics capabilities of the proposed product. The partner will benefit from the novel prototype developed during the research project as it demonstrates a highly versatile product for medical professionals that can be commercialized.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Yip

Student:

Seong Hyun Park

Partner:

9868208 Canada Inc.,Impact Center

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Exploration and Development of an Active Assisted Living Data Sharing Infrastructure Aimed at Supporting the Development of Standards, Guidelines, and Certification Programs

The Ubiquitous Health Technology Lab (UbiLab) will explore the development of a data integration framework and recommendation for associated standards that aims at combining data from (1) smart home systems, (2) AAL or IoT for health technology, (3) mHealth, and (4) wearables. Important areas of data management will be explored, as for example security and encryption (blockchain) and privacy and data access agreements. This initiative will provide the CSA Group with a roadmap of potential future standards to be developed in Canada and around the world to support the evolution of IoT for health and AAL technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Plinio Morita

Student:

Pedro Elkind Velmovitsky

Partner:

Canadian Standards Association

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

A green technology project: Development and production of eco-responsible, innovative biodegradable, recyclable and compostable food packaging materials based on natural fibers

Technological challenges in the pulping process of cellulosic fibers of different origins that can provide an optimal eco-responsible, biodegradable, recyclable and compostable alternative to polluting styrofoam packaging. AecopaQ stands out by using natural fibers grown and processed locally to the production of packaging trays for the food industry. AecopaQ is part of Canada’s sustainable development agenda. From conducting the current research project, AecopaQ will benefit in being one of the first Canadian companies in leading in the development and commercialization of 100% compostable trays for food packaging. Besides, the project will lead to the valorisation of local fibers, and the recycling of residual fibers. The current research work aims to study the formulation (composition, concentration, conditions) and processing conditions (such as mixing, thermoforming and drying processes) for achieving the required properties (thermal, mechanical, barrier, sealing, among others) of packaging trays for food intended applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abdellah Ajji

Student:

Pauline Guieu

Partner:

AecopaQ

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Integration of planning and scheduling for an industrial-scale analytical services facility

The aim of this project is to develop a computer-based algorithm that will integrate a planning model with a scheduling model to improve operations management for analytical service facilities. An iterative decomposition algorithm that can provide optimal production scheduling sequences (in acceptable computational times) based on changes in the strategic planning decisions will be provided and tested on an actual industrial-scale facility. Integration of planning and scheduling studies for large-scale plant sizes like that considered in this study have not been reported in the literature. Outcomes from this study will be instrumental to determine the technical feasibility of the proposed algorithm in analytical services facilities and to advance the mining sector in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Luis Ricardez Sandoval

Student:

Kavitha Girijavallabhan Menon

Partner:

Actlabs

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Improving the Accuracy of Frequency-Dependent Transmission Line Models by Including Corona Effects

The candidate will utilize his knowledge and experience in transmission line modelling to implement test cases required for the electromagnetic transient studies. The simulations will be performed using well-known computer packages available at BC Hydro and Power labs at UBC as well as programs written by the candidate to implement the recently developed line model in his PhD work. Simulation results will be compared with the simulations previously performed by BC Hydro. In case of agreement between these results, BC Hydro will be able to use the confirmed data and standards to design and set protective devises to moderate the effect of transient over-voltages on the overhead transmission lines existing in British Columbia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

José Marti

Student:

Arash Tavighi

Partner:

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Numerical modelling of continuous centrifugal castingof aluminium tubes

Continuous centrifugal casting (CCC) is a new process to produce aluminium tubes with many advantages over classical extrusion: reduced amount of scrap and energy consumption, low transformation costs, more flexibility to produce tubes of different sizes. In CCC, a constant flow of molten aluminum feeds a rotary mold which solidifies the metal into a tube shape while a mechanism extracts the new cast tube in rotation. However technical challenges need still to be overcome to make CCC more reliable. The aim of this project is to develop a numerical solver used to optimize the feeding of liquid aluminium and the rotating drum. It will enable to reach a more constant thickness of the tubes together with an acceptable surface condition, meeting then the standard requirements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sébastien Poncet

Student:

Ghofrane Sekrani

Partner:

ALU MC3

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Dietary alternatives to force-feeding for the production of foie gras

Foie gras is a commercial food product made from duck livers containing elevated amounts of fat. The traditional production practice involves the force-feeding of corn-based diets to the animals. Foie gras is currently produced globally at around 26 000 ton/year; however, given the growing animal welfare concerns, demand has started to dwindle, and its production has been banned in several countries. We propose to evaluate dietary changes with potential to increase voluntary feed intake and liver fat accumulation. To achieve our objective, we have devised two independent longitudinal studies evaluating the effects of replacing glucose with fructose, as well as using fructose in combination with varying levels of dietary fats.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Lefrançois

Student:

Leslie Delprat

Partner:

Centre de recherche en sciences animales de Deschambault

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Enabling Decision Making for Lower Mainland Facilities Management through Seismic Risk Modelling of Hospital Infrastructure

Healthcare infrastructure plays a key role in the recovery of communities in a post-disaster scenario. In seismically active regions, such as western Canada, an understanding of the seismic performance of hospitals is essential to inform emergency management and effectively mitigate earthquake risk. This research project aims to develop new methodological approaches to integrate seismic risk assessments into the decision-making process of healthcare facilities management. A series of case studies aimed at evaluating the seismic risk of several hospital campuses in the Lower Mainland will be used to validate the methods. The project aims to utilize building inventory data developed through a visual screenings of seismic vulnerability to develop models to estimate seismic damage, economic losses and levels of functionality associated with different ground motion shaking intensities. Two hospital campuses will be evaluated under realistic scenario earthquakes to inform emergency management response and identify possible mitigation measures.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carlos Molina Hutt

Student:

Preetish Kakoty

Partner:

Bush, Bohlman & Partners

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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