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Assessing the performance of an innovative IoT two-bin kanban “smart” shelve on a hospital’ logistics

While most of the research on RFID-IoT in healthcare sector focuses on mobile devices management and patient monitoring, this research contributes to our understanding of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to improve (internal) hospital’ medical supply logistics processes.
Although various replenishment-distribution point of use solutions are available in the market to meet the expanding workload, little is known about their real impacts on reducing costs, improving availability of medical supplies and driving better clinical outcomes. Additionally, with various competing solutions and supporting technologies, there is no single dominant model nor “best” replenishment distribution method. Managers are then wondering what is the “most appropriate” option for their use cases. The comparative analysis is not simple, since most of solutions are sold as proprietary solutions (lock-in licenses with vendors) with the underlying technological design, often presented at a high level by the vendors.
Following a Design Science approach, the purpose of this project is to develop an IoT two-bin kanban “smart” shelve replenishment system of medical supplies that can be used in a hospital nursing unit. This smart shelf combines various technologies including passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and indicative led.
The originality of this project lies in combining RFID-IoT technologies and hybrid simulation modeling that uses data from a real project to explore the impacts of the technological solution on critical logistical business processes and its impacts on patient care as well.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yasmina Maïzi;Amin Chaabane

Student:

Partner:

Gestion Richard Philippe;9266-5777 Québec Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Création d’un outil de modélisation géospatiale d’un réseau cellulaire

Networks, Economics & Strategy (NE&S) est une entreprise de conseil spécialisée dans les stratégies pour les secteurs des télécommunications et de la technologie. Ils possèdent une vaste expertise, allant de la planification des réseaux à l’analyse économique. Avec les changements rapides dans les télécommunications, une question clé est de savoir comment gérer automatiquement l’offre et la demande pour chaque réseau cellulaire. La solution proposée vise à développer un outil de gestion et de visualisation des réseaux communication, aidant ainsi à améliorer l’analyse et la modélisation géospatiale. Cet outil facilitera la prise de décision pour les décideurs du secteur.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mickaël Germain

Student:

Partner:

Networks, Economics & Strategy (NE&S)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Testing a new parameterization for barotropic mesoscale ocean eddies in an Arctic basin setup

Accurate modelling of the climate is of paramount importance in developing strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change. The ocean is a crucial component of the climate and simulating accurate ocean conditions in climate models is therefore extremely important. However, the energy required to reach a high degree of accuracy in modelling the ocean is large. Smarter ways of thinking are required to reduce the energetic cost of modelling the ocean while still retaining a high degree of accuracy. This project will test a new method for modelling the Arctic Ocean which has a low energy cost. We will compare the results of a highly-accurate, high energy cost model, with that of the new method to determine if this method can produce accurate results at a fraction of the energetic cost. This new method may be used in future climate models depending on the outcome of this project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephanie Waterman

Student:

Partner:

University of Oxford

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

The genetics of species formation in Amazonian birds: the case ofthe Silvered Antbird

This project aims to study how species form in the Amazon using the Silvered Antbird as a model. This species has diverged into two morphologically divergent forms. Where these forms come into geographic contact, populations appear morphologically and genetically intermediate suggesting they form a hybrid zone. To investigate the extent of genetic mixing between these forms I will use a genome-wide sample of tens of thousands of genetic markers sampled between eastern and western forms where they come into geographic contact. This data will be used to compare patterns of genetic merging, and to search for genes that may be important in promoting species formation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jason Weir

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Federal do Pará

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Reductive defunctionalization of biomass-derived polyols and lignin models using environmentally friendly silane reductants and a new and stable boron-based catalyst

There is a need for alternative and renewable methods to produce liquid fuels and commodity chemicals and decrease the world’s dependence on fossil resources. In this regard, the modification of simple, non-food (plant) biomass-derived chemicals is an important goal towards providing a sustainable access to high-energy molecules as potential fuels and other starting materials for the synthesis of drugs, agrochemicals, and other high-value commodity chemicals. The objective of this project is to apply and optimize a novel stable catalyst developed in the Hall Laboratory towards the breakdown of biomass-derived polyols like monosaccharides and lignin models, and evaluate its reactivity and selectivity to afford value-added chemicals under various reaction parameters. In particular, to maximize atom-economy, we will aim to optimize the reductive deoxygenation of unprotected monosaccharides. Hand in hand with this optimization, with the Oestreich Laboratory we will study the potential mechanism of action of any transformation that provides product in acceptable yield and selectivities, which will guide future improvements. This collaboration exploits recent fundamental discoveries towards applications of great importance to Canada and Germany.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dennis Hall

Student:

Partner:

Technische Universität Berlin

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Green/Alternative Energy; Sustainability & the Environment; Manufacturing and Construction

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Intermodal container allocation problem in rail yards

In this project, we propose to develop innovative methods to improve the efficiency of yard operations in intermodal terminals where containers awaiting to be loaded on the trains are temporarily stored. The management of yard operations involves allocating storage space to containers on the yard, and assigning cranes and/or other handling equipment to transfer the containers to the rail cars. The lack of proper planning and mishandling of containers can lead to large delays and significant rise in the operating costs. Thus a major challenge for the terminal managers, which we plan to address in this study, is to plan and co-ordinate the yard practices in accordance with the planned train schedules, and re-plan their operations quickly in events of last minute changes in the trains’ scheduled times.
Canadian National provides transport and logistics services through large intermodal terminals, and thus the proposed problem is very relevant for their operations. The main objective of the proposed study is to minimize the yard processing time and operating cost involved in the storage and transfer of containers, using sophisticated optimization based methods.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emma Frejinger

Student:

Partner:

Canadian National;Université de Montréal

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Application of AI for industrial Lidar object recognition

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Faculty Supervisor:

Terry Peckham

Student:

Partner:

Antea Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Program:

Accelerate

The process of embedding sustainability throughout a global organization

This project aims to explore how organizations with global operations implement change initiatives for greater environmental and social sustainability. Specifically, we are interested in how employees from various company sites make sense of these change and enact initiatives and whether there are different patterns of sensemaking and enactment among the company’s global subsidiaries. When completed we expect this research to better equip companies pursuing major changes around sustainability issues by identifying potential sources of resistance or divergent interpretations

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephanie Bertels

Student:

Partner:

Celestica

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Laser stripping of Polyamide coating over Platinum thin wire conductors

Laser wire stripping is an emerging technology, and this project aims to develop a laser process to achieve adequate stripping of the polyamide insulation from the platinum wire. To optimize the process, the laser parameters (speed, power, and focus) must be fine-tuned. Post stripping, the project focus will shift to identifying the characteristics of the platinum owing to the thermal influence of laser processing. For this, Scanning Electron Microscopy shall be used to study the effectiveness of soldering. Also, tensile testing will be conducted on both pure platinum, and wire stripped platinum to benchmark the properties for the laser stripping process. Additionally, there is a need to design a Jig/Fixture together with a machine vision system to simplify the stripping process that can be operated by anyone at the partner organization with out requiring specialized skill set.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sivakumar Narayanswamy

Student:

Partner:

Instrumentation Dynatherm

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Recherche exploratoire sur les modèles innovants en agriculture appliquée au contexte de Saint-Camille.

L’agriculture conventionnelle présente plusieurs problèmes. Pour arriver à la transformer, il faut expérimenter des modalités alternatives. Un motel agricole est l’une de ces modalités. Elle permet de louer des terres sur petites
parcelles à différents agriculteurs qui bénéficient également d’équipements et de bâtiments mis en commun.
Dans le village de Saint-Camille, l’idée intéresse certains leaders de la communauté. Le village compte sur des atouts qui semblent favoriser ce type de structure. Entre autres, la municipalité aura accès à une terre et les agriculteurs pourraient utiliser un centre de transformation du petit fruit. Avant d’implanter le projet, les différentes parties prenantes souhaitent s’assurer que la viabilité d’un tel modèle soit réelle. Cette recherche permettra de répertorier des initiatives similaires afin d’analyser les obstacles potentiels et d’émettre des recommandations, en
plus de permettre de mesurer le niveau de désirabilité d’un ou plusieurs scénarios envisagés auprès de la clientèle cible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Juan-Luis Klein

Student:

Partner:

Corporation De Développement Socio-Économique De Saint-Camille

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Projet ESG

Notre recherche s’intéresse aux impacts sur la performance des projets suite à l’intégration des critères ESG (Environnement, Social et Gouvernance) au processus de gestion de grands projets d’infrastructure. Dû aux pressions exercées par les investisseurs, l’intégration des critères ESG et leur divulgation par les firmes sont devenues des incontournables. Ces grands projets d’infrastructure sont complexes et génèrent des impacts environnementaux et sociaux positifs et négatifs importants. Vu leur complexité, ils présentent également des défis de gouvernance et de transparence tout au long du cycle de vie. Aussi, ce projet de recherche répondra à la question suivante : Quel est l’impact sur la performance des grands projets d’infrastructure de l’intégration des critères ESG tout au long du cycle de vie des grands projets d’infrastructure? Pour répondre à cette question de recherche, trois études de cas seront effectuées en collaboration avec l’Administration Portuaire de Montréal, partenaire de cette proposition.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathalie Drouin

Student:

Partner:

Administration Portuaire de Montréal

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Personalized user engagement based on activity insights

This project aims to integrate a chat interface into the UpBeing app to allow users to engage more deeply with their insights. It consists of informing a large language model (LLM) of a user’s most recent insights, which will give it real time ground truth a users’ recent experience, thereby empowering the LLM to provide extremely nuanced interactions. The project will result in providing better insights to the user, involve in more naturally occurring interactions and increase the user’s time on the application.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hassan Sajjad

Student:

Partner:

UpBeing Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

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