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Diversity Measures and Equal Opportunity Practices in the North American Corporate Labour Force and Global Diversity Management Practices

Visier Solutions Inc hopes to create a new standard for the measurement of employee diversity in organizations based on scientific research and measured baselines. With the help of the interns, this study will set a standard for the practical measurement of diversity in organizations as well as best practices in the analysis of metric results. The findings of this study will enrich our understanding of diversity and equal opportunity treatment of diverse groups in the corporate environment. Further, the study will expand Canadian knowledge on diversity management practices through engaging with the literature on global legal diversity definitions and management practices. The study will utilize quantitative and qualitative techniques through a statistical analysis of corporate employee data and a literature review on international practices leading to a sustained increase in the diversity of global enterprises.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Victoria Esses

Student:

Alexandra M. Bozheva;Paolo Palma

Partner:

Visier Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Non-contact vital sign detection of the newborn – Year two

Medtronic is a global leader in medical technology and biomedical engineering, working towards non-contact vital signs detection. This technology would be especially helpful in the case of high-risk or premature newborns. Continuous or at least frequent monitoring of newborns outside of clinical environments improves quality of life for parents and newborns recently discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Feasibility of such monitoring depends in part on the monitors being non-invasive and non-obtrusive. Although non-contact monitoring provides a variety of advantages compared to conventional contact constrained methods, there are engineering challenges to overcome to apply this technology to this unique population. As an academic partner, our research team, located onsite at BC Children’s Hospital, will develop and validate a video-based device for in-crib monitoring of heart rate and respiratory rate of high risk infants. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guy Dumont

Student:

Soodeh Ahani

Partner:

Medtronic of Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Methodology development for the non-destructive quality assessment of joints in polyethylene pipes based on ultrasound technology

The use of polyethylene (PE) plastic pipes for transporting gas and water has increased over the last few decades. The quality assessment and overall safety of the PE pipe networks have been of high priority for the distribution companies. The existing technology is somewhat complicated to use quickly and effectively by less experienced personnel. The proposed research study goal is to revise and evaluate the newest technological solutions for joint testing and propose a methodology that can address industry needs. The investigation will be focused on three areas involving ultrasound technology development, mechanical testing and an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm for classification. It is believed that the interdisciplinary approach to the problem and proposed methods will result in an expected outcome and will create a long-term positive impact on the industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roman Maev

Student:

Maryam Shafiei Alavijeh

Partner:

InDepth Inspection Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Brown Builds: Optimizing Build Performance and Comprehension

Modern software organizations use continuous integration (CI) practices to build and test their products after each code change in order to detect quality issues as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the number of builds scales super-linearly with the number of hardware and feature configurations that should be supported. In order to avoid running out of build resources, organizations are no longer able to build individual code changes, but instead need to build groups of successive code changes. Worse, certain ?flaky? tests executed during a build lead to inconsistent results, i.e., not every failure is a real failure. This project aims to prototype and evaluate approaches for (1) early detection of flaky build results and (2) reduction of build volume by grouping related code changes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bram Adams

Student:

Doriane Olewicki

Partner:

Ubisoft Divertissement

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Integrating biodiversity functional guild responses to land use and climate change in natural heritage system update – Year two

Urbanization continues to drive the land conversion from natural areas to urban uses dominated by impermeable surfaces. This conversion has direct and indirect impacts on ecosystem services that are critical for a sustainable and resilient ecosystem as well as human wellbeing. Habitat removal and fragmentation accelerate biodiversity loss in urban landscapes. Additionally, climate change exacerbates these impacts even further. Hence, green infrastructure is also becoming more common in urban landscapes to offset negative urbanization impacts. Here, species and habitat data in the Greater Toronto Area will be used to derive functional guilds based on their sensitivities to urbanization and climate change. Habitat suitability analysis will be conducted on each of these functional groups under current and future land use scenarios assessing changes in the landscape’s capacity to provide habitat with three climate scenarios (current, 2050, and 2080). TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Josée Fortin

Student:

Andrew Chin

Partner:

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Analysis of techno-economic-environmental feasibility of zero emission buses on public transit routes in Canadian context – Year two

Substitution of existing diesel buses by zero-emission propulsion technologies (electric batteries and hydrogen fuel cell) in vehicles – specifically public transit fleets – can play an instrumental role in realizing Canada’s obligation towards green house gas emission reduction. It is imperative to enable transit agencies to assess the capabilities of existing technology variants in meeting the demands of existing operations to achieve successful, long-term integration while maintaining commercially viability. Most of Canada’s transit agencies today lack a comprehensive understanding of the impact of these buses, in terms of their operational performance, cost, degree of interoperability, infrastructure requirements and environmental impacts. In the proposed project, the post-doctoral fellow (PDF) will develop a modeling-based predictive and comparative analysis tool. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather MacLean

Student:

Abhishek Raj

Partner:

Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Assessment and Genetics of Stress Resilience in Dairy Cattle – Year two

Dairy cattle are exposed to stressors that negatively impact health, fertility, welfare and production. Health and climate experts predict that exposure to stressors (i.e. pathogens and extreme temperature events) will increase as climate conditions continue to destabilize. Due to increased antimicrobial resistance, there is urgent need to explore alternative strategies to promote animal health; it is anticipated that genetic selection for increased stress resilience will yield healthier animals that will live longer and be more productive. Given the importance of the innate immune system for directing and participating in the immune response against pathogens, the proposed study will utilize an immune stressor (microbial-associated molecular pattern; MAMP) to stress phenotype dairy cattle. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Niel Karrow

Student:

ANKITA SHARMA

Partner:

Semex Alliance

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Identification of heterotic gene pools to accelerate hybrid breeding in Brassica napus (canola) – Year two

Heterosis is a natural phenomenon where offspring (hybrids) outperform their parents in many agronomic traits, although exploited in breeding the mechanisms controlling heterosis remain elusive. Genetic distance between parents has been positively correlated with heterosis, yet does not adequately explain the phenomenon. Dividing lines from any crop into heterotic groups that provide optimal combining ability upon crossing, is one of the most important goals of any hybrid breeding program. The main objective of this proposal is to define the heterotic pools of Brassica napus (canola). Comparative datasets, one from a diverse population of unrelated lines and the second from elite breeding lines, and their representative hybrids will be utilised. The level of genetic diversity and the uncovered heterosis will be assessed using phenotypic and genotypic measurements. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isobel Parkin

Student:

Sampath Perumal

Partner:

Cargill Global Edible Oils Solutions

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Elevate

Improving Situation Awareness for a Collaborative Service Robot in Care Environment – Year two

Development of Collaborative Service Robot (CSR) technologies usually targets a certain population group like seniors or people with developmental disabilities (DD) and requires tailored and dedicated research and development. This project is ultimately seeking to provide a proof of concept of a CSR platform that can assist people with DD. The overall project involves research and development focused on two broad robotics themes: autonomous navigation and situation awareness. Through previous Mitacs Accelerate and NSERC Engage programs, Developmental Disabilities Association (DDA) and JDQ Systems Inc. as the industry partners have established the basics of a CSR through collaborations with academic experts. Therefore, the expected outcomes of this project are to advance the existing features and add new features to the existing CSR prototype. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hendrik F. Machiel Van der Loos

Student:

Sina Radmard

Partner:

Developmental Disabilities Association

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Model based optimisation of operational level harvest planning and integration with tactical level plans: Towards the improvement of planning process performance

In this project, computer based models will be developed to support operational harvest planning suitable for the use by a large forest products company operating in British Columbia, Canada. The models aims to enhance decision making processes related to equipment/crew allocation, scheduling, transportation and vehicle routing. Findings of this project will have the potential to improve overall decision making in the forest industry, enhance the speed at which information required for decision making becomes available, support companies with robust estimates of consequences of various management decisions at operational and tactical levels, decrease costs and finally improving company’s competitiveness.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Verena Griess;Taraneh Sowlati

Student:

Salar Ghotb;Steffen Lahrsen

Partner:

Western Forest Products Inc.

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Redesign and Optimization of SmartRING Strander Facegear and Knife Clamping System

The SmartRING strander was developed in the mid-nineties to address the need in the Oriented Strand Board (OSB) industry for a higher capacity machine over the SmartDISC strander. As the established leader in stranding technology with over 75% market share globally, Kadant Carmanah is always looking to improve its technology in ways that result in improved strand quality, availability rates, and/or safety. The investigation into new clamping mechanism has the potential to impact all three of these key areas of improvement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gary Wang

Student:

Di Wu

Partner:

Kadant Carmanah Design

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of nanoscale and microscale delivery vehicles for plant immune aids using protein coacervation and spray drying

Modern pesticides have revolutionized agriculture. However, growing concerns with pest resistance, environmental run-off, and a lack of capacity to deal with abiotic stresses associated with drought or extreme heat (critical issues with regards to climate change) demand new solutions. Suncor has developed new plant immune aids that address these challenges by fortifying the immunity of plants, with demonstrated efficacy in crop models. However, current formulations suffer from low bioavailability and low leaf retention, resulting in the need for frequent and costly re-applications. In response, in this proposed Elevate PDF, food proteins and carbohydrates will be used to encapsulate plant immune aids on both the microscale and the nanoscale using scalable and inexpensive complexation techniques. The encapsulation, degradation profile, stability, and cellular uptake of the delivery systems will be assessed. Furthermore, the transport of the developed particles through the waxy leaf barrier will be optimized by modifying the surface hydrophobicity and charge of the complexes. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Todd Ryan Hoare

Student:

Ali Akbari

Partner:

Suncor Energy Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Elevate

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