Innovative Projects Realized

Analyse du débat concernant l’épandage du Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis (BTI) pour le contrôle des insectes piqueurs par la Ville de Trois-Rivières

Le projet vise à définir, clarifier, et analyser le débat concernant l’épandage du BTI pour le contrôle des insectes piqueurs, en proposant une étude des arguments scientifiques, éthiques, ainsi que des arguments invoqués dans le cadre du débat public sur la question. Les étudiants seront introduits à divers aspects de la démarche scientifique, incluant la revue de la littérature, l’analyse systématique et structurée, ainsi que la préparation de questionnaires, la réalisation d’entrevues, et la synthèse des données.

Events and Volunteer Program Innovation Project

The primary goals of the Events and Volunteer Program Innovation Project are to increase our capacity to run excellent and successful fundraising events, and to rebuild our volunteer program to be a well-oiled machine as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. There are dozens of people every month who apply to volunteer at EAC; we need to revamp our volunteer program to provide more people with meaningful opportunities to get involved and advance our mission. Our organization is growing, and so are the demands on our fundraising team; we need to make our existing fundraising events more successful and develop new events that can become annual mainstays. In both cases, we recognize the need for additional capacity to help us rebuild our systems, strengthen our existing practices and innovate new approaches around in-person engagement to ensure that our community can continue to support our organization and the vital work that we do.

Conception d’un rectifieur de courant

AWL-Électricité travaille actuellement au développement d’un chargeur sans fil dans le domaine de la mobilité en utilisant une technologie de couplage capacitif résonant.
Dans le but de manufacturer est d.’amener un premier produit sur le marché, AWL-E cherche à développer un Rectificateur de courent, et l’intégrer au produit présentement en développement. Le but est d’améliorer l’efficacité de recharge des appareils par le produit développé par AWL-E.

Market research for strategic positioning and evaluation of new business opportunities

Key responsibilities:
Conduct market research on potential partners, competitors, investors and offerings to inform our business strategy and growth trajectory. This involves summarising reports, reviewing company websites, creating market maps and databases on intelligence reports.

Helping quantify impacts of such analysis, through Target Addressable Market calculations (TAMs), building value cases of new offerings and modelling Return on Investment (ROIs)

Help access company business performance through data, dashboards and analysis. Prepare Excel/Google sheets.

Help prepare executive materials, including but not limited to: Financial models (excel), Go-to-market strategies and pipeline (ppt), competitive scans

Why it’s innovative: help ClearEstate’s senior executive team in making informed decisions about its competitive positioning, strategy and evaluate new business opportunities.

Dyne in new markets – BC

This project focuses on the establishment of traction, engagement, and scale for the Dyne Dashboard features. It
will include the establishment of new sales and marketing processes to automate and increase conversion pipelines
for Dyne’s restaurant offerings, new UX processes to maximize user engagement along with multiple Agile iteration
cycles, along with new financial research to expand this product into new market verticals and new cities across
BC

Marketing Research, Strategy, and Digital Marketing for Doggy Bathroom’s Expansion into European and Asian Markets, Hospitality Industry Growth, and New Product Introductions

The project’s primary focus is on conducting comprehensive marketing research and developing strategic expansion plans for Doggy Bathroom as it continues expanding in Europe, enters the Asian markets, pursues growth opportunities in the hospitality industry, and introduces new products. Emphasizing a data-driven approach, the project aims to create innovative business development strategies that maximize market penetration. Key objectives include increasing brand awareness across North America, continued expansion into Europe, and successfully breaking into the Asian markets. The project will entail developing a tailored business model for Europe and North America, incorporating elements such as strategy, market research, and digital marketing. By leveraging various business frameworks and processes, the project will enable Doggy Bathroom to identify business needs and implement an effective strategy for growth

Structural performance of novel sandwich panels under flexural, shear and axial loadings

Rising material costs, lack of quality control, labour shortages, challenging climates and significant on-site waste continue to be the challenges encountered by the Canadian construction industry. The collaboration between the research team and NEXII aims to develop the much-needed technical know-how for the new generation building panel products to address these challenges. This research concentrates on novel sandwich wall panels for use as the seismic force-resisting system (SFRS) of buildings with different archetypes, sizes, and connection systems. The seismic force modification factors are determined based on existing experimental test data and advanced dynamic analysis using finite element techniques.

Developing and enhancing clinical partner site management and training systems

Oncoustics is a startup, focused on AI-based diagnostics and point-of-care ultrasound. Data collection and clinical partner site management are critical operations for Oncoustics as they play a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the ultrasound data collected. Clinical operation management and the resulting data collected are essential for conducting meaningful clinical research and for training our machine learning models for early detection of liver disease. This projects objective is to optimize and modify existing clinical site management systems for data collection through system assessment, development of site management plan, updating existing training systems and deployment of these updates to our clinics. As the company is growing, and its’ clinical partnerships are increasing, a scalable management system needs to be developed. Effective management of clinical partner sites helps to establish strong relationships with healthcare providers, fosters compliance with industry regulations, and ensures that operational challenges are identified and addressed promptly and improves our overall data collection and machine learning pipeline.

Preserving Cultural Heritage in Rural Nova Scotia

This project will result in an online site showcasing Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre’s archives. These archives include historic materials such as programs, promotional materials, promptbooks, and other theatrical ephemera. Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre is a bastion of rural Nova Scotia theatre. This digital archive will make these materials available to the community and to researchers: right now, these materials are only available on site in the basement of the Bauer theatre–and only a handful of people know what is there in the first place. The digital project will help showcase the important work of Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre, past and present, emphasizing the people who create arts culture in rural Nova Scotia. This project will benefit researchers in fields such as history by making previously unknown materials findable; will benefit the theatre by highlighting their work and bringing people to (and back to) their artistic home; and will benefit the community by reflecting our shared culture.

Pathways to resiliency; Understanding challenges and opportunities towards community youth engagement; a case study of rural Nova Scotia

Cumberland County is located in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, close to the New Brunswick border. Cumberland County is made up of the Municipality of the County of Cumberland, two incorporated towns (Amherst and Oxford) and two Villages (Pugwash and River Hebert). According to Statistics Canada (2022) the population of Cumberland County, as of 2021, is 30,538, with the approximate size of the county being 4,248km2 (Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing, 2019/20). The proposed project is a collaboration between Mount Saint Vincent University researchers, the Municipality of the County of Cumberland, the Town of Amherst, and the Town of Oxford, in their mission to identify innovative solutions to engage youth in their communities. The partner organization will benefit by having a comprehensive report on how to improve the lives of youth in the area, and how to work to retain them. Furthermore, the partner organization will be presented with a list of recommendations. This will benefit the local community, economy, and more.

Efficient and Accurate Project Management Analysis Platform using Active and Few-Shot Learning Techniques for Advanced Insights and Predictions

This grant application, aims to develop an efficient and accurate project management analysis platform based on active and few-shot learning techniques. The main objective of our platform is to provide advanced insights and predictions related to project activities, teams, and budgets, using recent advancements in natural language processing (NLP), active and few-shot learning technologies. By automating most of the data science processes, our platform aims to reduce the need for manual data annotation, thereby minimizing human error and increasing the efficiency of the analysis. Our platform consists of two main subsystems: a log management and annotation subsystem and a model training and prediction subsystem. The log management and annotation subsystem will provide tools for efficiently managing and annotating project management logs, including NLP-based methods for automatically extracting relevant information from the logs. The model training and prediction subsystem will leverage active and few-shot learning techniques to train machine learning models that can predict project-related risks, identify over- or under- budgeting and data quality of project-related information. By combining these two subsystems, the platform will provide organizations with a powerful tool for making data-driven decisions and improving project management performance..

Invasive Plant Risk Mapping

Invasive species are one of the major threats to biodiversity in Canada and globally. It can be challenging to identify where and under which circumstances landscapes will be most susceptible versus resistant to invasive species, and not having this information can hamper conservation efforts. The objective of this Master’s project is to model and map current and future invasive plant species distributions and spread in Canada in relation to landscape connectivity and climate change. This will allow for the forecasting of the future burden of invasive plants to resident communities considering multiple facets of global change. The project’s results will be useful for determining where conservation actions should be targeted to sustain resilient landscapes.