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Engineering - chemical / biological

Modelling large-scale behaviour of hybrid macro-scale response agents for use in mitigation of marine oil spill impacts

While technologies exist for cleaning up marine oil spills, they become decreasingly effective with increased lag-time between spill and initiation of remediation efforts. Rapid-deploy chemicals could potentially reduce the spreading of marine oil spills, increasing the time available for teams to clean it up. The hybrid spill-treating agents (STAs) under development by BC Research Inc. (BCRI) to herd and gel marine oil spills provide great promise in this area. At the current stage of understanding the large-scale behaviour of STAs is unknown, though bench-scale experiments are promising. This research uses physical testing to determine the spreading characteristics of oil compounds under influence of STAs. This will help BCRI in development and understanding of these chemicals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Lawrence

Student:

Richard Cunningham

Partner:

BC Research Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of remote diabetic retinopathy screening implementation on British Columbia healthcare costs

Fifty percent of diabetic patients are expected to develop some level of a vision threatening problem known as diabetic retinopathy (DR). Although blindness caused by DR is very common amongst diabetic patients, it is preventable in at least 90% of the patients through annual screening and proper follow up. However, financial burdens, lack of access to a specialist (specially in remote areas) to perform routine checkup and the specialists’ busy schedules make it almost impossible for many patients to follow up properly on the status of their disease. To this end, a comprehensive study will be performed to analyze the effect of insufficient DR screening on BC healthcare costs. Then a cost-benefit analysis will be utilized to investigate the effectiveness of new reimbursement codes related to DR screening in primary care clinics and remote interpretation. Finally, the study will include the development of an intelligent DR screening technique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sarah Lubik

Student:

Ehsan Daneshi Kohan

Partner:

Ophthalight Digital Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

In-situ Exfoliation of Graphene Nanoplatelets Using Supercritical Fluid in Foaming Processing

The manufacturing of high-performance graphene/polymer nanocomposites relies on both the production of high-quality and low-cost graphene sheets and the fine dispersion of graphene in the nanocomposites. The commercial graphene materials in large quantity are typically GnPs with several to tens or even hundreds of graphene layers whose properties are inferior to monolayer graphene. In the previous work, it was demonstrated that SCF-assisted foaming of GnP/polymer nanocomposites can effectively exfoliate GnPs in situ. However, there is a lack of understanding on the exfoliation mechanism during this process. In this project, SCF-assisted exfoliation of GnPs will be comprehensively studied. A great effort will be made to achieve full exfoliation of GnPs to generate monolayer graphene sheets. The obtained knowledge will benefit the industrial partner in optimizing the GnP manufacturing process and also provide guidelines for designing SCF-assisted twin-screw extrusion processing of GnP/polymer nanocomposites.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chul Park

Student:

Jun Wang

Partner:

NanoXplore Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Advanced manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Ultra-low power wireless sensor node design for health monitoring

In this project we address the problem of power consumption for wireless sensor nodes. This is where among different components of a sensor, RF transceivers consume a significant amount of power e.g. approximately 80%. Hence the main objective is this project is to tackle the power consumption problem at the RF transmitter, where we aim to reduce the power consumption to micro-watts of power, with minimal sacrifice in achievable data rate and by keeping the connectivity range within an acceptable radius.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lotfollah Shafai

Student:

Navid Rezazadeh

Partner:

TandemLaunch Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Impact of Climate Change on Wetlands in Prairie Canada

Prairie wetlands are intricately linked with climate and hydrology. Future climate change, such as warmer conditions, changes in precipitation amount and intermittency, may both benefit and threaten the wetlands over the Canadian Prairies. During the same time, large-scale land use changes have been occurring such as the conversion of natural wetlands to agriculture lands. Understanding the long temporal scales over which land use and climate changes occur, and their impact on wetlands distribution, require sophisticated climate modeling tools that contain a realistic representation of not only climate and weather, land-atmosphere interaction, hydrology, but also wetlands. This is a great challenge to our ability to understand the environmental impacts on/of changing wetlands. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yanping Li

Student:

Zhe Zhang

Partner:

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an Auxetics Smart Textile for Applications in Healthcare Products

Smart wearable biomedical technology has a wide range of application in health monitoring during life activities or in traumatic situations. This technology can provide a practical and convenient solution for continuous health monitoring of elderlies, and patients suffering from different types of dementia like Alzheimer’s Disease. Additionally, the technology can facilitate trauma medicine by providing compact, portable, and easy to use devices to monitor patients in traumatic situations and can help emergency management by real-time data transfer. Comfort is an important factor for smart wearable biomedical devices. Auxetic materials, a novel type of material with counterintuitive deformation behavior, has attracted great attention in the field of medical devices. These materials exhibit improved mechanical characteristics and are in high demand for various applications in the field of medical textiles which can benefit most people. However, very few types of auxetic materials have been implemented for practical applications. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hani Naguib

Student:

Nastaran Shahmansouri

Partner:

Myant Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Rehabilitation Approaches for Steel Structural Plate Bridges

Structural steel plate products such as buried bridges, culverts, and pipes, are entering states of distress. Present day, little is known about the severity of the different deterioration mechanisms occurring in these structures and even less is known on how rehabilitate them accordingly. The following proposed research project will investigate the deterioration and rehabilitation of these structures. The project will summarize commonly encountered deterioration mechanisms, assess the suitability of state-of-the-art rehabilitation practices, and identify future research and development opportunities. With an understanding of how corrugated steel culverts behave near the end of their service lives, products may be designed more effectively and better guidance on infrastructure management of these asset will be made available. As a result, the project will lead to economic and social benefits to Canada and the partner organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Moore

Student:

Robert Cichocki

Partner:

Corrugated Steel Pipe Institute

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of a Vertical Roller Mill for Metal Ore Processing

This research focuses on dry comminution technologies and specifically on the Vertical Roll Mill. Goldcorp recently announced a new initiative referred to as H2zero with the goal of reducing water usage in their mining operations by 80 to 100%. The study will compare energy usage in comparison to conventional wet ball mill grinding. The study will investigate the effect of dry comminution with the VRM on downstream flotation by comparing the effects of physical properties of the ground product and surface chemistry in comparison to wet grinding in ball mills.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bern Klein

Student:

Tugba Cebeci

Partner:

Loesche GMBH

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Visualization of gene structures, phylogenetic trees, and RNA structures

Bioinformatics is at the intersection of computer science, mathematics and biology. With the advent of new technologies, more and more genomic data is being generated. A common task for analysing such data is to visualize it in an interactive way that highlights the results of computational analyses. In the past 5 years, Web browsers have become very fast at data visualization, creating more opportunities to share bioinformatics results on the Web. This project combines comparative genomics expertise from the CoBIUS lab at UdeS with visualization techniques expertise from the data visualization company Plotly. The project aims at developing interactive tools to compare and visualize gene structures, phylogenies, and RNA structures that include important information from the underlying biological data and facilitate the handling of bioinformatics results. UdeS researchers will benefit from Dash, Plotly’s software for enabling Web data visualization in Python. Plotly will benefit from new bioinformatics applications that use Dash.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aïda  Ouangraoua

Student:

Jean-Pierre Séhi Glouzon

Partner:

Plotly Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Machining Strategies for Low Machinability Powder Metallurgy Ni-Alloys

Nickel based alloys manufactured via powder metallurgy (PM) are the next generation of materials that offer great service performance and increased efficiency of gas turbine engines. This class of material is characterized by their poor machinability. Additionally, limited information is known about the integrity of machined surfaces; thus limiting its acceptance by the industry. This research is expected to produce the following results: (a) developing machining strategies, and defining the optimum cutting parameters and the parameters of high pressure cooling (HPC), (b) supporting the design of cutting tools; material (CBN and WC grades), geometry and surface coatings, for machining of P/M nickel based alloys, and (c) providing a methodology for the design of the HPC delivery system; both internally through the tool holder / inducers, and externally through a nozzle, in order to maximize the heat dissipation from the cutting zone on the tool.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Helmi Attia

Student:

Mahmoud Hassan

Partner:

SECO Tools Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Setting risk margin for claims and premium liabilities in accordance with IFRS 17

This proposal deals with the pricing and risk management considerations of a property and casualty (P&C) insurance company. These considerations are within the context of a new accounting standard called IFRS 17, in which liabilities in insurance contracts will be measured prior to and during the exposure periods. We propose an implementable and accurate methodology, which is also compliant with the new standard in generating risk measures and margin adjustments. Such a new methodology will focus on the characterisation of the distribution of losses, and will be benchmarked with the traditional collective risk model. The main objective is to see to it that contract losses are tracked down properly and the company’s income statement incorporates them legitimately; thus a more theoretically valid measurement of revenue is obtained. Case studies will be developed to demonstrate certain challenges associated with the IFRS 17 and how they could be possibly overcome in practice.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rogemar Mamon

Student:

Yixing Zhao

Partner:

J. S. Cheng & Partners Inc.

Discipline:

Statistics / Actuarial sciences

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

New acoustic insulation meta-material technology for aerospace

Sound pressure level in aircraft cabin are similar to a noisy work place. One of the most disturbing noise for passengers is related to the engine fan noise during take-off and approach. This noise is mainly tonal (i.e., at specific frequencies) and in the low frequency range (below 500 Hz) – see figure below.   Reducing this noise for the comfort of passengers is an important and challenging issue in aeronautics. One way to reduce cabin noise is to use efficient thermal acoustic insulation blankets between the interior trim panel and the exterior shell.  However, conventional acoustic materials (ex.: glass wools, foams) have reached their limits in terms of sound proofing, and non-conventional ones, such as metamaterials, need to be industrialized.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Saïd Elkoun

Student:

Kamal Kesour

Partner:

Mecanum Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

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