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Engineering - chemical / biological

Thiosulphate Leaching of Silver Sulphide Ore in Cupric Medium

Most silver ore is present in form of silver sulphide in nature. Traditional method of silver leaching treats the ore using cyanide, similar to gold leaching. Cyanide leaching has raised more public concerns in the society, due to its potential hazard toward human as well as environment. Regions start to regulate or ban the usage of cyanide leaching worldwide, so alternative to cyanidation becomes essential. Thiosulphate leaching has been by far the most successful alternative, due to its low toxicity, low cost and relatively high efficiency among all options. However, application of thiosulphate leaching is limited due to high reagent consumption and lower efficiency compared to cyanidation. The research project aims to improve the efficiency and decrease the reagent consumption of the system with additives, and provide a guideline for future research. The project is hoped to assist thiosulphate leaching to be more economically-viable, so the greener industrial process can gain a wider acknowledgement in future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Dreisinger

Student:

Yueh (Yves) Lai

Partner:

Pan American Silver Corp.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development and application of non metallic component strategies

Non-metallic technologies, including composite materials, have the potential to improve aircraft engines performances and fuel efficiency, and therefore gained a lot of popularity in the aerospace sector in the past decades. Therefore, the overall objective of this research project is to develop an understanding of all available non-metallic technologies, their maturity and value proposition when applied to Pratt & Whitney Canada engines. The intern will contribute to accelerate the development and incorporation of specific non-metallic components in Pratt & Whitney engines. The intern will also identify design system updates necessary for non-metallic materials and technologies. Finally, the project will lead to the elaboration of design guidelines and protocols for the design, manufacturing and testing of non-metallic components specifically for P&WC products. The project will allow a focused approach to leverage the capability of non-metallic technologies that will improve product competitiveness and support of long term sustainability goals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pascal Hubert

Student:

Gilles-Philippe Picher-Martel

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Adenovirus vaccination platform

Vaccine industry is evolving towards more efficient manufacturing systems. Adenovirus vectored vaccines are among new promising approaches for more efficient vaccines design and production. Recombinant Ad (rAd) can be used as gene deliver vector carrying different antigens for delivery into Ag-presenting cells (APC) eliciting a targeted immune response. Alternatively, antigens can be exposed on the rAd capsid, thus presenting the antigen to the immune system. Ad-vectored vaccines are safe, stable, have a broad tropism and have a large insert capacity and can be delivered orally. Production of adenovirus-vectored vaccines is a key aspect in the acceleration of Ad-based vaccines clinical evaluation. Although the rAd manufacturing is a straightforward cell culture production process, there are several aspects of the bioprocess that remain to be optimized in order to reach high yields and high quality Ad-vaccines. Critical process parameters related to the cell culture production platform, the downstream processing and the quantification methods will be reassessed for higher productivity and process robustness.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amine Kamen

Student:

Ernest Milian

Partner:

PnuVax SL Biopharmaceuticals Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Gesture-based interfaces for in-vehicle information systems

Driver distraction has long been a critical issue drawing substantial amount of research effort. In order to reduce driver distraction for improved driving performance and safety, automotive suppliers have been endeavoring to provide optimum user interaction solutions. Until recent years, there have been growing interests in the use of gestural interfaces for in-vehicle information systems; however, little is known about how such gesture-based interactions differ from existing touch- and voice-based interactions in the context of driver distraction. In the proposed research, the intern will work closely with the partner organization – Qualcomm, to help design and evaluate the gesture-based interactions under development at the company. Comparisons among different interaction types will be conducted and evaluated extensively. The project will provide empirically supported suggestions and identify relevant performance metrics for designing advanced in-vehicle gestural interfaces. This gesture capability is expected to minimize driver distraction and will help Qualcomm open up additional client opportunities with auto manufacturers as well as Tier 1 automotive suppliers and infotainment system providers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Birsen Donmez

Student:

Tsang Ngai Hung

Partner:

Qualcomm Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Design of Cost-Effective Customizable Earphones: 1) Sleeve Design and 2) Curing Resin Optimization

The objective of this grant is to develop a  curable resin in the shape of a customizable inset for an earphone, along with the sleeve and associated components. The material should be relatively inexpensive, cure rapidly (within a few seconds optimally) and ultimately provide consumers with a customized earphone that will fit the vast majority of the population. Using a simple model sleeve with common initiating systems, not only will material properties be tailored for the resin (depending on the choice of monomers), but the curing time will be optimized by the careful placement of the initiators at the surface of the sleeve. A material package with desirable resin mechanical properties (to be determined by the industrial partners) and rapid curing time.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Milan Maric

Student:

Surjit Singh

Partner:

Revol Technologies Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Supporting the scaling up of evidence based programs in schools: A Community catalyst Framework for Implementation.

Schools and educators are often asked to implement programs shown to be effective in reducing a number of mental health, and societal ills like bullying and peer victimization. While they often seen as the ideal contexts for reaching many children at the same time, the capacity of schools and educators to respond to the increasing demand for their expanded role in advancing the mental health and well-being of students is poorly understood and supported. Schools are often overburdened with growing curriculum demands, increasing class sizes, and special needs children. Our research examines the challenges and opportunities of schools as implementers of evidence-based programs. We have developed and are investigating the usefulness of a new “Community Catalyst” implementation framework that identifies programs champions in both the community and schools and supports them to act locally to enable high quality program implementation and scale up.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bonnie Leadbeater

Student:

Joelle Taos Taknint

Partner:

Rock Solid Foundation

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

BC recreational fisheries: exploring potential for development of kokanee program Year Two

The proposed project aims to evaluate the potential for a kokanee species based recreational program in stocked lakes of B.C. Recent data collected by the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C. (FFSBC) suggests that effort can increase by up to 400% once kokanee are large enough to be caught. The main benefit of this program is a potential increase in fishing effort and the recruitment of new anglers. The project will include estimating the biological capacity for kokanee using state-of-the-art stock assessment models of fisheries science. Estimates of biological capacity will be integrated with analysis of angler preferences and stocking cost-benefit analyses to estimate the growth potential for recreational fisheries for kokanee. The research could also provide findings important for multi-species lakes across the country and the models could assist with regulating the effort on the wild lakes, helping to conserve sensitive kokanee populations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Murdoch McAllister

Student:

Divya Alice Varkey

Partner:

Riseform Flyfishing Ventures

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Sports and recreation

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

A comparative analysis of good governance in Canada and Vietnam to enable civil society organizations to participate as a central development actor

The overall aim of the research is to increase the influence of citizens in governance activities in Vietnam through bilateral development assistance from Canada. The research will compare the Canadian and Vietnamese characterization of “governance” and “good governance,” notably how governance is conceptualized and measured. The research will document specific Canadian approaches to and international norms for engaging civil society organizations in governance processes, in comparison to Vietnam. The research will identify and provide specific recommendations on opportunities for governance programming in Vietnam (at national assembly law and policy making and national ministry levels) that are in accordance with international norms and draw on Canadian and Vietnamese experiences. The researcher will then support the planning and design of an overall $12 million five-year governance program in Vietnam, and how it should be implemented and reviewed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kenneth Christie

Student:

David Josey

Partner:

SALASAN Consulting Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Royal Roads University

Program:

Accelerate

Porting Virtual Machine for running on Blackberry and Android Environments

The purpose of this contract is to port SageTea’s Alpha Version of its Virtual Machine for QNX to Android. The Virtual Machine contains approximately 30,000 lines of C Code and has an existing QNX compiling environment. It is able to run Smalltalk (to a limited degree) and is used for running SageTea on Smart Phones. This job is a port of the code from QNX to Android and bring both to a level of readiness to run beta trials on both QNX and Android. We are interested to know if this project can be delivered as installable “services” that can hide the VM model completely. This would allow SageTea software to be viewed as a standard service which can be run on any mobile operating system, including QNX, Android or potentially iOS.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gabriel Wainer

Student:

Mohammad Etemad

Partner:

SageTea Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Determination of stress-induced modifications to vaccine proteins by mass spectrometry

The therapeutic effect of a vaccine depends on its chemical composition, and in particular the integrity of its protein components. Conditions under which a vaccine is manufactured and stored can damage the proteins it contains; however, since proteins are structurally complex and reactive, their degradation during routine handling is unpredictable. In the project described here, three candidate vaccine products will be subjected to models of manufacture and storage in order to induce chemical changes within them in a controlled manner. Subsequent to this treatment, chemical changes in the vaccine proteins will be measured using advanced analytical instrumentation. The intent of this experimentation is to identify, and ultimately mitigate, the chemical basis of vaccine efficacy loss. This partnership will leverage expertise in vaccine development at Sanofi Pasteur and expertise in protein analysis at York University. An understanding of the changes that occur within vaccines under defined handling conditions will inform better production and storage practices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Hopkinson

Student:

Gwillym Declan Williams

Partner:

Sanofi Pasteur

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Business Intelligence and Recommendation for Samsung Knox Community Forum

Companies usually use private forums to share sensitive information and discuss strategies. Valuable business knowledge is hidden inside the user generated content in these forums and waiting to be extracted and reused. Knox Community Forum, a thriving private forum inside Samsung where employers from all around the world post content like win notices of deals, meeting agendas of customers, business objectives, various news and technical issues online. In spite of large numbers of posts generated on Knox Community Forum every day, Samsung does not yet have tools to analyze the content of the posts. The intern will gain access to real business forum data set of Samsung and extract data fields from unstructured post content and perform business intelligence mining including business trends summarization and prediction. Previous customer requirements and sale solution will also be mined and paired. A new personalized recommendation algorithm will be developed to recommend the best solution summarized from past requirement-solution pairs given a specific customer and help the sales agent to better engage the customer

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Ester

Student:

Beidou Wang

Partner:

Samsung Research Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Lively Web of Things (LWoT)

The term Web of Things (WoT) refers to the concept of integrating resources and interactions involving devices, data, and people on the web. WoT features interactions as first class entities above and beyond traditional web resources and, thus, enabling applications with substantial context awareness, personalization, and automation. Lively is a new open source approach to web programming developed by our industrial partner. It provides a complete platform for web applications, including dynamic graphics, network access, and development tools. The aim of the Lively WoT project is to develop a series of dashboards for different application domains using Lively. Using the Lively Kernel as a code base we will use a model driven engineering approach to generate personalized and self-adaptive dashboards for diverse domains, including cloud computing, big data analytics, and interactive shared video streaming.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sudhakar Ganti

Student:

Matt Hemmings

Partner:

SAP Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

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