Innovative Projects Realized

Otoscopy and Ophthalmology Training Technology Development

Teaching medical students and allied healthcare professionals accurate and patient friendly diagnosis of ear, eye and nasal conditions are challenging tasks due to the lack of realistic models and interaction with patients. The OONTTDP is a collaboration between the Hospital for Sick Children and Otosim to improve the teaching results through development of realistic simulators with various conditions embedded within an easy to use system. This development work includes: hardware design to incorporate 2-way communication for teaching feedback, modeling work to create ear, eye and nose models, and a novel virtual scope for diagnosing nasal conditions. This work offer hands-on technical training for new graduates while generating new products for Otosim.

Amélioration de l’estimation de la limite de vitesse pour un système de gestion active de la vitesse pour une flotte de véhicules

E-SMART commercialise un produit qui offre aux flottes de camion une façon innovatrice d’assurer la conformité aux panneaux de limite de vitesse de leur véhicule. Les principaux clients sont des flottes de camions aux États-Unis et aux Canada.

Pour contrôler la vitesse du véhicule, E-SMART s’interface directement entre la pédale d’accélération et l’ECM d’un véhicule. Une combinaison d’une cartographie embarquée et d’une caméra est utilisée pour déterminer la vitesse maximale permise.

Le but du projet est d’améliorer l’estimation de la limite de vitesse retournée au véhicule. Durant la dernière année, E-SMART a continué d’installer beaucoup de nouveau produit qui couvre des nouveaux cas d’utilisation que nous n’avions pas encore rencontré. Comme par example, nous avons observé que nous avions plus de difficultés à retourner la bonne limite de vitesse dans les zones rurales parce que la cartographie est mise à jour moins fréquemment. Également, parmis les nouveaux cas d’utilisation, nous avons également fait face à des véhicules qui circulent principalement en dehors du réseau routier officiel et qui nécessite de revoir l’approche de la gestion de la limite de vitesse d’un véhicule.

Une erreur sur la décision de la limite de vitesse est le facteur principal qui va influencer négativement l’adoption du produit. Étant donné la complexité , le projet actuel propose donc d’attaquer la problématique en focusant sur 2 pistes de solutions différentes.

Time Series forecasting for 6-month market demand prediction

Fiddlehead Technology is taking the art and science of predictive forecasting to a new level, working with machine learning to find elegant solutions to some of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry’s most complex problems. Fiddlehead is employing big data analysis and forecasting to revolutionize the food and beverage supply chain, solving the hard problems of reducing inventory cost and improving customer service levels, while building resiliency in the supply chain. The result is more accurate demand forecasts and unparalleled competitor foresight, allowing companies to see their blind spots and be more competitive. Fiddlehead’s goal through the BSI project is to develop a forecasting model estimating the next 6 month demands of the market. The intern will analyze, interpret and model data to solve business problems on a global scale.

Les collections du Séminaire de Québec, berceau de la culture canadienne

Ce projet d’inventaire et de documentation des bibliothèques anciennes des Ursulines de Québec et du Séminaire de Québec vise à faire connaître un pan méconnu du patrimoine culturel canadien. Il favorisera une meilleure compréhension des enjeux liés à la formation et à l’éducation des jeunes filles et des jeunes garçons à l’époque de la Nouvelle-France et du Québec ancien, et permettra une étude plus large du rôle des maisons d’enseignement dans la constitution de la culture canadienne. Ce travail autour de la bibliothèque ancienne des Ursulines amènera le Pôle culturel à développer un plan d’urgence et d’intervention mieux adapté en cas de sinistre, il garantira un meilleur accès aux collections pour les chercheurs et donnera lieu à des initiatives de mise en valeur concertée avec le milieu de la recherche. Le travail autour de la bibliothèque du Séminaire de Québec favorisera un raffinement des inventaires et une meilleure connaissance des phases de développements de la bibliothèque, ainsi qu’une priorisation des ouvrages à numériser entièrement.

Urbanization research in Ukraine and Canada

Urbanization processes are taking place in the world, so they need the latest research. Spatial orderliness and organization of urbanization forms changes over time, which determines the peculiarities of regional living conditions, its level and quality. A detailed analysis of urban studies in Ukraine and the world testifies to the completeness, significant scientific and practical results of geographers. We are trying to improve the methodology of assessing the level of urbanization and use new methods of researching this process in our research work. To achieve this goal, we will evaluate sociological and statistical databases in Canada and Ukraine and learn more about the tools used to analyze data on urbanization in these countries. The research can be the basis for optimizing the territorial management of regions, the basis for forecasting regional development.

Hydrothermal treatments of carbohydrates from pea and faba bean

Protein Powered Farms will develop value-added carbohydrate fractions suitable for use in the mining and food industries. We are targeting mining and food sectors and will be using ingredients from the starchy fraction and the seed coats from our current fractionation process as feedstock for this project. We project being able to develop and test 6 prototypes in the 52 weeks of this project.

Laxlife Inc – Marketing Project – Digital marketing of apps for creating/sharing sport practice plans & playbooks

Laxlife Inc. is a company that offers instructional apps for various sports, including lacrosse, hockey, basketball, and soccer. Laxlife aims to scale up its operations in Canada. This project aims to help Laxlife Inc. increase its market share and achieve long-term success by developing product concepts and implementing an effective marketing strategy. This project will focus on comprehensive analysis of the market and generate new product concepts that meet customer needs and align with Laxlife’s business goals and values. Developing a clear and compelling marketing strategy that aligns with Laxlife’s overall business goals, values, and target market will enable to achieve the goal. Finally, this project will enable Laxlife in adopting the marketing plan with the goal of increasing awareness, the number of subscribers, and ultimately the number of users. This will include a successful product launch and onboarding process for current subscribers, followed by a marketing campaign.
The expected outcome of this project is the development of new product concepts and a comprehensive marketing strategy that will enable Laxlife to increase its market share and achieve long-term success. Additionally, the project will provide valuable experience to the student intern and potentially lead to a full-time employment opportunity with Laxlife.

Scalable Team-Based Learning – Structure Editor, GUI Editor and Teacher Dashboard

Parents, teachers, administrators, and senior governments all recognize the importance of K-12 Computer Science (CS) education in preparing tomorrow’s citizens for both future job opportunities and social issues caused by information technology. For example, Ontario’s 2020 math curriculum adds both coding and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). McMaster Start Coding (http://outreach.mcmaster.ca) is one outreach program who has delivered coding instruction and mentorship to thousands of children every year. The charity Fondation STaBL Foundation was established to develop tools capable of scaling this activity up to millions of children, and ensure that every child graduating from grade 8 has the math skills required to succeed in high school algebra, and that they can use those skills in software development.

In this project, we will develop or improve prototypes for three of these tools: (1) a structure editor for Elm, which bridges the gap between block-based coding like Scratch in the primary grades, and the textual languages used by professionals, (2) a drag-and-drop editor for user-interface elements like buttons, scroll bars, and menus, and (3) a dashboard where teachers and mentors can see at a glance how their class or project team are progressing so they can direct their resources to children most in need of their aid.

Exploring ways to reach students in rural Francophone communities

The Gaia Project (“TGP”) is a New Brunswick-based charitable non-profit with the mission to empower youth to take action on climate change through education. For over 10 years, TGP has been providing in-class support to teachers across New Brunswick and the unceded territory of the Wabanaki peoples by delivering hands-on experiences that ignite student curiosity, enhance skill development, and provide meaningful and developmentally appropriate information related to the causes of and solutions to climate change.

The organization has experienced challenges in reaching northern communities of New Brunswick. The schools in these regions tend to receive less resources and outreach opportunities which can be very beneficial to student engagement. There is a demand for program delivery, but without staff located in the region it can be very difficult to partner with these schools.

The Gaia Project feels that through implementing a francophone strategy we will be able to engage underrepresented areas of the province. We currently do not have the capabilities to do so, and an innovative French language strategy would be able to accomplish this.

Innovative Website and Web Application Development for Law Enforcement

Forrest Green, in collaboration with Saint Mary’s University, will work with the intern to successfully develop and implement new web solutions and module for Police Services across the country. The intern will work on innovative dashboards to support crime trends and crime data (external) as well as aggregated officer data for use of system analysis including reporting, citations, workloads, and budget support. Along with the dashboarding, the intern will support a lead developer on building modules to optimize resources and reduce labour.

Développement de modèles IA parallélisés adaptés à la prévision court terme des mouvements d’énergie dans des équipements électriques de moyenne tension

On cherche a prevoir via l’intelligence artificielle (IA) comment un groupe d’equipements de moyenne tension appele «
paste satellite » va alimenter en electricite son secteur de distribution pour les prochaines heures et jours. Le
comportement d’un poste satellite est defini par trois unites de mesure qui sont la puissance active en megawatts (MW),
la puissance reactive en megavars (MVar) et l’intensite en ampere (A), et qui sont prises pour trois types differents
d’equipements du paste (le transformateur, la barre et le disjoncteur triphase), soit de l’ordre de cent points de mesure par
paste. Dans ce contexte, le travail propose consiste a construire des modeles IA qui, par apprentissage sur les mesures
observees aux pastes satellites (puissances active et reactive, intensite) sont capables de simuler puis prevoir ces grandeurs
physiques (extrants) a partir de donnees meteorologiques locales disponibles (intrants meteorologiques) et eventuellement
d’autres donnees non-meteorologiques (intrants non-meteorologiques).

Assembling a system for continuous production of carbon nanopearls

Carbon nanopearls are an exciting novel class of materials that present unique characteristics, and they turn out to be an excellent alternative to carbon nanotubes for different applications. Presently, they are experimented with success as material for cold cathodes for electron?beam based instrumentation applications and they can be used for the development of polymer nanocomposites with specific properties. We plan to develop a new chemical vapor deposition reactor with a mechanism for allowing a prolongation of the nanocatalyst lifetime that can favour the material growth process. A new fabrication process based on optimization of factors such as temperature, gas fluxes and substrate rotation speed will be determined in order to obtain the highest throughput for a continuous production.