Innovative Projects Realized

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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

10%
Computer science
9%
Engineering
1%
Engineering - biomedical
4%
Engineering - chemical / biological

Pipeline Strain Based Assessment of Geotechnical Hazards

This project will characterize the ability of vintage (1930 – 1970’s) pipeline materials to support large deformations and develop numerical simulation tools capable of predicting the onset of failure. Of particular interest to this project is the analysis of geotechnical hazards including the ground movements that could impact pipelines including landslides and subsidence events. The numerical simulation tools that have been developed to assess these geotechnical hazards will be enhanced in this project to better define the significance of a ground movement event in terms of the deformations imposed on the pipeline to define allowable ground movement limits and focus remedial or repair action on those geotechnical hazards that pose the greatest risk.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arnaud Weck

Student:

Amir Hassannejadasl

Partner:

BMT Fleet Technology Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Defining SDN protocols to enable Orchestration of Service Provision across Multiple Optical Transport Networks

The primary goal of the intern project is to research and propose implementations that enable streamlining the APP (application layer) interface to flow through the SDN layered model. The target solution would enable a SDN-standardized approach of handling the APP communication with the data plane. It involves developing an Application plug-in for the Open Day Light (ODL) software, adding necessary support at Layer 1 to increase the North Bound Interface (NBI) and South Bound Interface (SBI) count, and to implement the required intelligence in the ProNX BTI Management & Control Software (http://www.btisystems.com/Portals/0/Documents/Data-Sheets/proNX-Software- DS0048.pdf). This new approach will be capable of handling multiple SDN networks with a common master SDN controller.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Kunz

Student:

Karpakamurthy Muthukumar

Partner:

BTI Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Experimental Development and Design of Low Reynolds Number Airfoils for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a cost-effective and low-risk airborne platform for scientific and surveillance equipment. Due to the variety of instrumentation that they can carry, UAVs have enormous potential for use in a range of commercial and military sectors. However, their small size and low speed brings about aerodynamic challenges that are not present on larger aircraft. The goal of this project is to better understand these unique phenomena at a fundamental level in order to develop practical engineering solutions that will improve performance of UAVs. The research will take place in the low-speed low-turbulence intensity wind tunnel at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. Results will lead to specific design guidelines that Brican Automated Systems will use to stay at the leading edge of UAV development in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Lavoie

Student:

David Sutton

Partner:

Brican Automated Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Aerospace studies

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Designing for complex IT environments based upon workflow analysis and managed field studies

CA Technology wants to design the right software products well. Their user interaction designers recently began interviewing end users in their workplace and developing archetypal descriptions of typical users called ‘personas’. The good thing about personas is that they encourage designers to take a people-first perspective, which is great most of the time. But, sometimes when the software being designed is for complex IT environments personas are not enough. This is often the case for CA’s business software. This research will expand on the popular persona approach. It will develop different types of personas that help designers to also keep the technological environment in mind because the people and the technology in a business environment are a single system. This will help CA Technologies to gain an industry advantage because business decision (which product to build?) and design decisions (which product design is best?) will be informed and grounded in typical users’ and their technological contexts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Lewis Biddle

Student:

Judith Brown

Partner:

CA Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Building ecologically robust lakes for offsetting fisheries productivity

In order for Canadian industry to continue to meet the high demand for energy they must adhere to the social and environmental pressures to reclaim and restore the extraction sites to fully functioning ecosystems, and to offset environmental destruction when appropriate. Recent changes to Canada’s Fisheries Act in 2012, have enshrined offsetting strategies as a legislative means of compensating for the loss of commercial, recreational or Aboriginal (CRA) fisheries. In Alberta’s Oil Sands Region, the creation of new lakes (i.e. compensation lakes) has been approved method for offsetting CRA fisheries, when mitigation is not possible. Determining how newly created ecosystems can resemble natural systems, and how best to maximize sustainable fisheries productivity, remains an important research and industrial question. The research program described here is focused on building ecologically robust lakes for fisheries offsetting. The specific objectives of this research program are to: 1) assess methods for measuring fisheries productivity between compensation lakes and natural systems, 2) assess the relationship between habitat and fisheries age and growth, 3) assess the efficacy of artificial structures to improve habitat suitability of a species of concern, 4) assess ecosystem function/functional diversity in compensation lakes, and 5) to determine food-web structure and trophic dynamics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Poesch

Student:

Jonathan Ruppert

Partner:

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Head Start Ottawa: review of program structure and implementation

The objective of this project is to review the program structure, program delivery and client satisfaction for 10 Head Start early childhood education centres operating in Ottawa, ON. Through a mixed-methods approach that combines interviews, surveys, and drawing activities with children we will gain insights on the strengths and challenges experienced by families, children and operators of the Head Start programs. Results from this research will inform best practices for early childhood education services and may be used to improve program delivery, increase efficiency, and client satisfaction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stefania Maggi

Student:

Alan Hay

Partner:

Cattelan Palmer Consulting

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Compressed Sensing based Tomosynthesis Image Reconstruction

Digital Tomosynthesis (DTS) is an innovative imaging modality that provides 3D reconstructed images of inner organs, using conventional digital x-ray equipment. The image slices are reconstructed from a series of projection images acquired as the x-ray tube moves around the patient in a limited angle path. DTS improves the sensitivity of lesion detection, due to reduced overlap of tissues. However, since the conventional reconstruction methods need many projections to achieve diagnostically high quality images, patients are exposed to higher amounts of radiation dose, which in turn increases the chance of cancer induction. This project aims to develop a new reconstruction algorithm in order to obtain high quality slice images using a relatively new mathematical theorem called Compressed Sensing (CS). CS enable high quality images to be reconstructed from few projections, leading to diagnostically better quality images derived from low dose scan protocols in a shorter time.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Narinder Paul

Student:

Sayed Amroabadi

Partner:

Carestream Health Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

A Flexible Next-Generation Network Platform

CENGN (http://www.cengn.ca/ ), the Center of Excellence in Next Generation Networking, is a newly formed tri-council funded center of excellence for commercialization and research (CECR) that will bridge the gap between research and commercialization, which is critical to building successful startup companies. CENGN is a consortium of industry, academic and research leaders who are putting their expertise and equipment on the table to lower the barrier to entry for SMEs and researchers. CENGN accelerates commercialization by providing companies and researchers access to a world-class physical and virtual multi-vendor commercialization, test, certification and validation platform. CENGN will ensure that Canada is a global leader in the development of the Next Generation Network (NGN), the Internet of Things (IoT). The Interns supported through this cluster application will contribute to the development of this innovative platform, based on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) concepts. They will also interact with SMEs that deploy their applications on this platform and work with vendors who would like to see their products integrated into the multi-vendor platform.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Kunz

Student:

Eugene Ngangue

Partner:

Center of Excellence in Next Generation Networking

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

A Virtualized Cloud-based Multi-Tenant Environment for Developing Software Defined Network Products

The proposed research will develop a virtualized cloud-based multi-tenant environment tor testing and developing software defined networking products on a national scale. Similar centers are being built in other jurisdictions (Japan, Europe) but this is the first such initiative in Canada. We are partnering with CENGN, which is a consortium of industry partners who wish to create a shared ecosystem where new product development can be supported and shared within the consortium. They will benefit from this research because the research environment this project will support will allow them to develop, test, and integrate commercial products and solutions. More importantly, interns trained within the program will be trained and gain experience in technologies that will benefit the R&D efforts of CENGN and its ecosystem of partners. It is expected that many of the interns will go on to jobs at CENGN partners or customers

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Faculty Supervisor:

Liam Peyton

Student:

Rubina Lakhnai

Partner:

Center of Excellence in Next Generation Networking

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

The design, development and testing of a collaborative and adaptive root-cause analysis (CARCA) tool in a professional health, safety, environment, and regulatory department

This project aims to test and fully develop a collaborative and adaptive root-cause analysis (CARCA) tool. Designed as an educational technology, the goal of this tool is to enhance learning and retention of knowledge and skills of Health, Safety, Environment, and Regulatory professionals in their incident/accident investigations. The project will extensively test the tool for individual-use andcollaborative-use in the industry partner’s multiple departments. It will then identify the benefits and shortcomings of each methodology. The technology will finally be built in the industry partner’s Canada operations network and address its local training and competency needs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bonnie Shapiro

Student:

Ugur Parlar

Partner:

Centrica Energy Canada

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Design of a self-adapting project management application

To be more competitive in the market, many companies are trying to speed up the quotation process and quote more attractive prices and have identified a need for support in the quotation process in order to reduce the quotation lead-time and ensure a higher level of accuracy in the cost estimations. In the case of CIENA, a first investment has been made for an automated price quotation system with respect to the equipment/products that are sold by the company (currently under development). However, CIENA would be interested in including the price quotation for customer projects as well, and this is a far more challenging enterprise as it not only includes equipment/products, but services (e.g., circuit, node or ring updating or replacement) and highly specialized manpower. In addition, the execution of the services depends on the quality of the customer network and the experience or expertise of its technical support or type of equipment. The objective of the research project is to design and develop a web-based quote management application in order to automate the quoting process for CIENA internal and external sales or technical engineer personnel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brigitte Jaumard

Student:

Akash Patel

Partner:

Ciena Corp.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Transportation Infrastructure Improvements for Wildlife Protection and Economic Productivity

Regional and municipal partners spend resources, time and effort securing and protecting their natural heritage systems. Roadways act as barriers restricting movement of plants and animals, degrading habitat for many species, and increasing mortality affecting the quality of these natural heritage systems. The intern will investigate methods, techniques and technologies that can be used to develop improvements to the practice of road construction. The intern will help lead the assessment of impacts and identify the successes of existing road crossing infrastructure, develop the science and practice for monitoring and assessment of road infrastructure, and identify recommended road crossing solutions that help to maintain the quality and function of natural heritage systems. Citizen Scientst will benefit from this project by developing science, volunteer opportunities and monitoring techniques, as well as developing visual arts science and communication pieces to facilitate public awareness, and facilitating the development of scientific publications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicholas Mandrak

Student:

Colleen Crowe

Partner:

Citizen Scientist

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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