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13270 Completed Projects

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Community Economic Development in the Formalization of Small Scale Mining

This research project will include a thorough literature review pertaining to business models of potential benefit to the formalization of the small-scale mining sector. These models will be developed to this particular situation in order to improve efficiency, reduce pollution and increase community economic benefit. Working with SEF Canada will allow us to harmonize this model development with real, positive community economic impacts. Chris Tucker brings extensive knowledge of small scale mining and SEF Canada are experts in business development in particular in developing economies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marcello Veiga

Student:

Christopher Tucker

Partner:

SEF Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Improvements of in-situ sve remediation management using integrated simulation and risk assessment approaches at the cantuar site

SaskEnergy developed an in-situ remediation program using a soil vapour extraction (SVE) system to facilitate recovery of petroleum hydrocarbons at the Cantuar Site. One of main problems associated with this program is the deficiency in the knowledge of process control based on the fate and transport of contaminants, and effective studies for assessing the environmental and health risks/impacts. Many questions remain to be answered, such as: “Whether the SVE system is suitable for remediation of the Cantuar Site to current environmental guidelines?”, “How long will it take to reach the guidelines with the existing remediation efficiency?”, “Is there potential for future impacts on the surrounding community?”, etc. Answers to these questions will help site mangers & decision makers get insight into current site situations. These will be very helpful when discussing the problems and the relevant decisions with the local authorities. The proposal aims to solve such practical problems and can be applied at similar contaminated sites in western Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gordon Huang

Student:

Yurui Fan

Partner:

SaskEnergy

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Anomaly Detection in SCADA Networks

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems enable network-based monitoring and/or control of processes in various industrial sectors including electrical power distribution, energy, waste water and water. These systems serve as the backbone of much of Canada’s critical infrastructure. Security compromise of SCADA systems allows malicious attackers to gain control of the industrial processes in question – with devastating results. The objectives of the proposed research are to conduct academic research into anomaly detection algorithms for SCADA network threat detection. As the intern will conduct research in the network security area they would develop expertise that is in a huge demand. This will immensely benefit both the intern and Canada as well due to enhanced secure infrastructures. Solana Networks will be enhancing their security monitoring tool to include SCADA networks. Hence this research will directly influence the company’s’ product space.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sudhakar Ganti

Student:

Tianming Wei

Partner:

Solana Networks

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Design and development of helical pile testing apparatus

This research will focus on designing an apparatus and developing a testing protocol for determining the capacity of helical piles in collaboration with Stable Ground Solutions. A helical pile is a type of deep foundation that consists of a shaft and helix or multiple helices. The testing of piles can be expensive and time consuming using current standard testing methods. There is also a lack of research and publications focused on helical piles and therefore they are not commonly used. This project will deliver a detailed design of the apparatus for the industry to fabricate the prototype. The proposed technology will allow the industry to conduct safe, timely and efficient tests on soils. Stable Ground Solutions will commercialize the apparatus as a tool for engineers to obtain the bearing capacity of soils using helical piles.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sumi Siddiqua

Student:

Muhammad Umair Khan

Partner:

Stable Ground Solutions

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Automated multi-target tracking in broadcast video cameras

Automated object detection and tracking in videos is still one of the challenging problems in computer vision. Generally, it is a very challenging problem due to the loss of information caused by the projection of the 3D world on a 2D image, noise in images, cluttered background, complex object motion, partial or full occlusions, changes in illumination, real-time processing requirements, etc. This project is about detection, identification, and estimation the location of all hockey players in a game in the real world co-ordinates using the broadcast video cameras. Therefore, this project contributes to constructing a fully automated and robust multi-object tracking system for sport player tracking that works in real-time with respect to the current hardware resources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Dudek

Student:

Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera

Partner:

SPORTLOGiQ Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Sports and recreation

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

CommuterVis: Visually Understanding Commuter Behaviour in Canada

Too many people drive cars for commuting to work. If people used more active and sustainable transportation options this would reduce the impact on the environment and likely increase people’s physical activity and well-being. Our project partner Sustainable Alberta Association (SAA) is a not for profit organization that organize a Canadian annual wide competition called Commuter Challenge held during Environment Canada Week where individuals and work places track their commuting behaviour over a week. In this research project we propose to visually explore the commuting behaviour data to better understand how participants commute within Canadian cities. Our goal is to raise awareness of commuting behaviour via visualizations to help organizations such as city councils and local governments to improve their business decisions when making investment into sustainable transportation infrastructure such as public transit, bike pathways, and electric vehicle recharge stations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Maurer

Student:

Rahul Bhaskar

Partner:

Sustainable Alberta Association

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Implementing a Sustainability Toolkit

The Sustainability Toolkit has been developed to address the lack of available practical guidance on how to implement sustainability in an organization. In essence, the Toolkit integrates globallyrecognized approaches to sustainability and systems-based management (ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and ISO 26000). The basis for the system-based approach is the Plans-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) process which breaks down initiatives into smaller manageable steps and leads to continual improvement. By integrating a management system framework into the social responsibility guidance defined by ISO 26000, the Toolkit is a practical and flexible approach to sustainability implementation that is applicable to all sizes of organizations across various industry sectors. This project will validate the tool by testing the 13-step approach to sustainability integration within SMEs across various sectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Colquhoun

Student:

Jillian Tweedy

Partner:

Tavares Group Consulting Inc.

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Time-aware Network Diffusion for Social Network Analytics

Nowadays, social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, become platforms where ideas and opinions are constantly exchanged and rapidly reach populations that are geographically dispersed. Many marketing, political, and social campaigns rely on this fact to spread ideas, raise awareness in a massive way, and increase the popularity of products and services. Successful campaigns are those that spread information over large fractions of the population as fast as possible, usually within specific deadlines that are required. Generally, there do exist tools that can help design strategies that reach large portions of the population. However, there is a lack of practical tools that can make these strategies meet their required deadlines and achieve their goals as fast as possible. This may heavily impact the success of these campaigns, and this research proposal aims to develop tools that can automate strategies that are efficient both in terms of information spread and the time at which this spread is achieved. By collaborating with a major company in the field, Sysomos Inc., the results of this research can potentially have a large impact in the way that modern social network campaigns are developed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andreas Veneris

Student:

Zissis Paraskevas Poulos

Partner:

Sysomos Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding behaviour change regarding a decrease in resource use in the Halifax Peninsula, Nova Scotia

Behaviour change and the use of nudges are not new phenomenon within academia. However, the difficulty of measuring behaviour change hinders the development of a solid understanding of how behaviour change transpires. As such, the intern will use primary data to asses Thinkwell Shift and ENSC’s current and historical resource use reduction and hevaioural change strategies. The proposed research project will seek to determine how behaviour change regarding a decrease in resource consumption is occurring in the Halifax Peninsula, Nova Scotia, and to create an interactive and accessible spatial representation of this experienced behaviour change. In the end a final report as well as a geodatabase and spatial outputs will be produced. The relevance for the parties involved is to further enhance the behaviour change strategies that Thinkwell Shift and ENSC implement to ensure that resource use within the home is being reduced to the highest extent.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Tyedmers

Student:

Sarah Rosenblat

Partner:

Thinkwell Shift

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Tailoring few-cycle pulses: Terahertz time-domain differentiator

The employment of THz radiation, i.e. radiation with frequencies falling between the microwaves and infrared domains, is arousing an ever-increasing interest in the last decade. Thanks to its invaluable features, such as transparency to the most part of the materials, negligible ionizing energy and availability of high frequency carriers, this technology is penetrating in lots of areas, spanning from medical care and homeland security to cultural heritage and telecommunication systems. However, the lack of reliable devices devoted to THz wave handling still has to be properly addressed. The project aims at developing the first demonstration of a completely integrated THz pulse differentiator, without the need to switch between the THz and electronic domains. This device will be the base for the design of THz modulators/demodulators and filters. TeTechS Inc. will use this technology to commercialize interconnects for broadband THz telecommunication networks, enhanced THz Time Domain Spectroscopy and new sensing technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roberto Morandotti

Student:

Alessandro Tomasino

Partner:

TeTechs Inc.

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization of wood bison interspecific somatic cell nuclear transfer and embryo culture for species conservation

Interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer (iSCNT) is a promising technique whereby a bison donor cell is transplanted into a domestic cattle oocyte. Different fibroblast donor cells have been demonstrated to have different embryonic outcomes. Problems with SCNT embryos have been also reported after in vitro culture. Toronto Zoo’s efforts have focused on wood bison iSCNT, a threatened Canadian species, in order to conserve its germplasm. Therefore, this project will characterize bison somatic cells used for iSCNT and their potential to achieve successful embryo development; as well as optimize in vitro embryo culture after in vitro fertilization and iSCNT. A novel approach using bison oviductal epithelial cells will be tested to improve in vitro culture. This internship will allow Toronto Zoo to identify any disruptions produced during iSCNT and embryo culture, as well as the implementation of novel embryo culture protocols for non-domestic cattle species. Furthermore, it will provide knowledge for establishing valuable biotechnology systems for biodiversity preservation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Allan King

Student:

Amanda Victoria Cordova Gomez

Partner:

Toronto Zoo

Discipline:

Zoology

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Human umbilical cord perivascular cells as cell therapeutics for biodefense and immunomodulation

Mesenchymal stromal / “stem” cells (MSCs) are found in adult tissues such as bone marrow and fat and also in neonatal tissues such as the placenta and umbilical cord. Among these sources, Human Umbilical Cord PeriVascular Cells (HUCPVCs) are the richest source of MSCs described. Importantly, they possess immunomodulatory and immuneprivileged properties which enable them to be delivered from one donor to another, evading immune detection. Tissue Regeneration Therapeutics (TRT) Inc. is developing MSC products with prophylactic properties for use in biodefense and immunomodulation applications by genetically modifying the cells to secrete therapeutic antibodies, however we lack inhouse expertise in this area. This project will enable the laboratory of Dr. Bernhard Ganss, in collaboration with TRT Inc., to carry out pilot collaborative work to address these and other challenges associated with designing, engineering, producing, and testing this novel class of MSC-based therapeutics in animal models of disease for use in biodefense

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bernhard Ganss

Student:

Dominik Fritz

Partner:

Tissue Regeneration Therapeutics Inc.

Discipline:

Dentistry

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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