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Engineering - chemical / biological

Physically-Informed Vinyl Record Model for Real-Time Guitar Effect Processing

In the world of music, the warm, lo-fi response of vintage, analog electronic equipment is generally considered to deliver better sound than modern equipment. This is aptly demonstrated by guitar players who prefer vintage effect pedals, and music enthusiasts that prefer to enjoy music on vinyl records – despite the rising cost, difficult maintenance, and increasing scarcity of vintage equipment. As such, many manufacturers and researchers have begun digitally recreating this vintage equipment – allowing their sounds to be reproduced at lower cost, with increased robustness and consistency. In line with this paradigm, we plan to digitally recreate the response of an old vinyl record player and incorporate it into a pedal. It’ll give guitar players the experience of playing through an old vinyl record player by recreating all the warmth, warble, and noise that vinyl junkies love in an easy to use stompbox.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gary Scavone

Student:

Mark Bennett

Partner:

SolidGoldFX

Discipline:

Music

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Quantum Resources Required for GKP Qubits

Qubits are fundamental units for quantum computation. Photonics is a promising physical medium to realize large-scale quantum computation. One proposal to realize photonic qubits was proposed by Gottesman, Kitaev and Preskill (GKP). Here, the logical qubit is encoded into states of a bosonic mode or a quantum harmonic oscillator. It is expected that such a procedure will lead to a better quality and number of qubits. Very recently, it was shown that these GKP qubits along with Gaussian operations that can be constructed from squeeze operators, displacements, interferometers, phase shifters, and homodyne measurements are sufficient for universal fault-tolerant quantum computation. The GKP qubits could play an important role in many applications of quantum computation using continuous-variable systems. The aim of this project is to determine the resources required for producing GKP qubits using squeezed displaced states, interferometers, and photon-number-resolving measurements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hoi-Kwong Lo

Student:

Eli Bourassa

Partner:

Xanadu

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Assessment of the “Pathway to Resilience” program

The purpose of this research is to develop an assessment for the”Pathway to Resilience” program. The “Pathway to Resilience” program is a resilience training program for employees developed by Air Institute. The assessment created during this internship will be used to assess the program’s effectiveness. This assessment will be used to guide organizational reports delivered to client organizations following the program. This assessment will also provide insight into the program’s effectiveness for internal use (i.e., modify the program where needed and provide evidence for its effectiveness). The “Pathway to Resilience” program aims to promote mental health and prevent psychological harm (MHCC, 2012; 2013).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Kelloway

Student:

Tabatha Thibault

Partner:

Air Institutes

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Detection, Management and Prevention of Malicious Traffic and Cyber Attacks using BYOS

Cybersecurity has continued to dominate the strategic priorities of businesses, governments and industries worldwide. A recent report from the Kaspersky lab estimates the total number of online global malicious acitivities to have exceeded 700 million annually. There is an urgent need to develop mechanisms for the rapid identification and management of threats and malicious traffic, and the preventiion of cyber attacks on corporate networks, infrastructure and personal devices.
Mkit Security Solutions is engaged in the design and development of network threat detection, alert and prevention systems that continuously monitor network traffic for attack signatures and filter malicious traffic. A key innovative product of the company is BYOS, a small, portable, secure gateway device that plugs into user devices such as laptops through a USB port and isolates, protects and alerts the user in the event of a cyber intrusion. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Srinivas Sampalli

Student:

Junhong Li

Partner:

BYOS

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Passivity Guaranteed Frequency Selective Time Domain Simulation of Very Large Linear Electric Power Systems

In this research, a new approach to efficiently simulate large RLC represent power systems will be introduced and implemented in RTDS. The new approach utilize principle component analysis to search the subspace of state space vectors corresponding to a customer designed frequency band excitations and using projection method to form the reduced order system. Unlike other frequency dependent network equivalent methods, the proposed method reserves all internal information of original system and also inherently guarantees the passivity of the equivalent network. The results of this study will provide a new module in RTDS. It can be used for efficiently modeling large RLC represented network. So, ultimately will enhance this part of the RTDS simulator.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aniruddha (Ani) Gole

Student:

Huanfeng Zhao

Partner:

RTDS Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating polysaccharide-protein conjugation: characterization and effects of glycation conditions

Pneumonia remains the single leading cause of childhood death under age 5 worldwide. The price per dose of current vaccines is high and supply is limited due to a complex manufacturing process and low yield, significantly reducing its distribution in developing nations.1 A newly patented vacuo dry-glycation process promises much higher efficacy than the conjugation chemistry used currently, paving the way towards a much lower dosage cost. and its vaccine is a kind of polysaccharide-protein conjugate system. However, the process conditions required for activation of the polysaccharide by vacuo dry-glycation have not been optimized, and the characteristics of distinct serotype polysaccharides and the corresponding activated polysaccharides and conjugate products are not fully reported and studied. This research addresses these deficiencies, enabling PnuVax Inc. to further the development of a more affordable vaccine that can be used in Canada and around the world to reduce childhood death due to pneumonia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robin Hutchinson

Student:

Mingmin Zhang

Partner:

PnuVax Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Advancing Human Performance in the Canadian Football League

North American professional football players struggle with mental health challenges such as addiction and depression during and following their athletics careers. Despite the fact that these athletes value positive emotional, psychological, and social mental health, little is known about ways organisations can protect and promote these parts of athletes’ mental health. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to explore challenges and opportunities CFL players face to experiencing positive mental health during a professional season. This research will help inform a CFL Human Performance Program designed to improve player well-being and maximise on-field performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicholas L Holt

Student:

Kurtis Pankow

Partner:

Edmonton Eskimos Football Club

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Simultaneous Analysis of Endocannabinoids with Mass Spectrometry Methods in Human Serum using Point-of-care Collection Devices

Endocannabinoids are compounds produced by the human body that bind to and activate cannabinoid receptors. There are two major endocannabinoids: anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG). Both play a role in regulating the firing of brain cells in the nervous system and attenuating immune system responses. As such, the endocannabinoid system is implicated in several clinically relevant processes including appetite regulation, pain management, fertility, and beyond. Routine measurements of AEA and 2-AG can enable further investigation by healthcare professionals into the impact supplementing the endocannabinoid system can have for patients. Method development for AEA and 2-AG will be explored using serum samples analyzed with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). A dried serum spot collection card will be evaluated for use as a point-of-care tool for healthcare professionals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Britz-McKibbin

Student:

Jordan Holzschuher

Partner:

Seroclinix Corporation

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Program:

Accelerate

CO2-EOR in Devonian Reefs of Alberta: Reservoir Characterization and Screening

Devonian reservoirs have contributed significantly to the development of the petroleum industry in Alberta. This is mainly due to their favourable characteristics of high permeability enhanced by dolomitization in these often reefal structures. Although many have had good recoveries, much oil remains to be recovered. Many of the same characteristics that led to good production performance during the past decades are expected to contribute to good production potential if CO2-based enhanced-oil recovery (CO2-EOR) methods are employed. In this research, we will characterize a subset of these reservoirs from geological and engineering points of view and develop a methodology for assessing and ranking of their suitability for CO2 -EOR. This will strengthen position of the partner organization in this area. Furthermore, the partner organization is developing a course for reservoir characterization of carbonate reservoirs, particularly for the application of CO2-EOR. The reservoirs examined in this research will serve as case studies in this course.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hassan Hassanzadeh

Student:

Ahmad Zeighami

Partner:

MPD Reservoir Engineers Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Fostering Learning and Professional Development for Users of Feature-Rich Design Software

Feature-rich design software is of critical importance to many industries, including manufacturing, architecture, and construction. A common feature of this software is that, to be used effectively, the user must possess technical competency and an understanding of the specific workflows and practices for using the software within their organizations. In the past, users could get by with an initial period of dedicated training on the software they would use in their careers, but the rate of change in design software is accelerating, making social and on-the-job learning of software skills much more important. The intern will investigate the practices that professionals use to develop their software skills over time on the job. The results of this study will be important for Autodesk, which makes 3D design software for the manufacturing, architecture, and construction industries, and is actively involved in developing tools to foster the professional development of Autodesk users.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Parmit Chilana;Andrea Bunt

Student:

Kimia Kiani

Partner:

Autodesk Canada Co

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Pan-Canadian Survey of Education Funding Structures and Processes

Across Canadian provinces, there is little standardization or coordination in terms of public education financing. As such, there is no coordination or standardization in public education across Canada. The IPE/BC is interested in producing a report that outlines the diverse funding models used across Canadian provinces and territories. The aim of this project is to be easily understood and accessible to educators, researchers, policy analysts and citizens. The intern will utilize secondary data analysis to gather and analyze information on education funding allocation across Canada. The intern will then compile the information in a report, and deliver a presentation to key stakeholders. As the IPE/BC is committed to independent research focusing on strengthening the public education system, this project sparks greater dialogue and presents an opportunity to learn from and engage with other jurisdictions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Laitsch

Student:

Iulia Sincraian

Partner:

Institute for Public Education British Columbia Society

Discipline:

Public administration

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

An investigation into the motivations of individuals who volunteer and work at charitable and not-for-profit organizations

The goals of this research proposal, therefore, are to: 1) conduct a publishable review of the psychological literature to further understand the motivations of the unique group of individuals who choose to volunteer or work with charitable or not-for-profit organizations; and 2) develop an employee survey that will provide further insight into the motivations of this group of individuals. Taken together, these two products will provide a solid foundation for other human resources documents and practices at charitable and not-for-profit organizations. These documents will also help leaders and human resource practitioners better understand, manage and motivate their volunteers and workers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Debra Gilin Oore

Student:

Gregory Anderson

Partner:

Habitat for Humanity Nova Scotia

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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