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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Lateral Load Carrying Capacity of Self-Tapping Screw Assembly

Self-tapping screws (STS), when compared to traditional wood screws, are longer and have improved thread geometry, and are made of hardened steel which increases their axial, bending, torsional, and most importantly also their withdrawal capacity. The use of STS in connection assemblies, however, is not standardized and their advantageous performance when implemented at an angle to the grain cannot be fully utilised unless proven by testing. The objective of the project is to test the connections utilizing ASSY Full Thread STS inserted at 45 degrees to wood grain according to International Code Council (ICC) testing requirements. It is expected that the intern will become an expert in the use of STS, and become familiar with the ICC requirements. The Canadian partner organization expects to receive approval for their product from ICC in order to expand into the US market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Tannert

Student:

Eyan Fiszman

Partner:

MyTiCon Timber Connectors Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development of in vitro assays for identification of novel natural products that enhance muscle growth

For the majority of people, weight training builds skeletal muscle, which results in health benefits (e.g., improved disease risk and lifespan). However, despite training, some individuals have trouble gaining muscle (nonresponders). This lack of a response is likely related to an impaired ability to make new proteins (impaired activation of protein synthesis), and there is currently no remedy. Dietary interventions have the potential to boost muscle mass and may benefit individuals who would otherwise be non-responsive to a training stimulus. This project aims to screen a large number of natural products (compounds found in nature) to identify a compound, or cocktail of compounds, that activate protein synthesis. Our industry partner, Iovate Health Sciences, has a strong interest in the outcomes of the proposed research project and has the capacity to commercialize the findings by creating and distributing novel research-based health products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Moore

Student:

Daniel West

Partner:

Iovate Health Sciences

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

A Framework for Scheduling and Mapping of Image Signal Processing Pipeline on Heterogeneous Architectures Applied to Video Enhancement Algorithms

Video contents and applications become integrated in everyday life and demands for high-quality videos, such as 4K, are increasing. Even modern optical equipment introduces inevitable noises that may heavily mask video content. Environment conditions such as low light, results in more video quality degradation. Therefore, a video-enhancement technique is required to reconstruct the original non-noisy video, but such algorithms require extensive processing resources to reach a reasonable (real-time) performance and power consumption. Heterogeneous processors and platforms can provide the required performance and power of a video processing algorithm by efficient design. This requires a suitable algorithm for scheduling the algorithm tasks on the processors of the heterogeneous architecture. The long-term objective in our university-industry collaboration is to propose a target architecture-independent framework, including scheduling and mapping algorithm, for accelerating an image-processing pipeline and apply it to video enhancement such as denoising. Our framework will consist of four main parts: a) modeling, b) scheduling and mapping, c) target-independent video enhancement library and, d) objective evaluation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aishy Amer

Student:

Kazem Cheshmi

Partner:

TandemLaunch Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Impact of Net Metered Solar Energy on Distribution Networks

The research will comprise effects of penetration of photovoltaic on existing distribution network. This will include power quality, voltage stability and customer load when there is a penetration. The graphs would display and let the utility organization know till what level the penetration should be done on a distribution network. The advantages and the need for doing the research is that the load can be distributed from the utility to the photovoltaic panels which are installed and the utility would have to generate less by the existing means. In this case by means of Hydro. The graphs would also show the peak generation by distributed generation (photovoltaic) in the hours of the day when the deliverable of customer load would be analysed. A literature review would be present in the final report which would have the effects of distributed generation on power quality, protection schemes & harmonics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Dunford

Student:

Rushie Rastogi

Partner:

BC Hydro

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Supply chain metrics during the product lifecycle

Ciena Corporation is a global supplier of telecommunications networking equipment, software and services. The company operates in a high product mix, low volume environment with short product cycle times. As a consequence, it has difficulty estimating product volumes and end-of-life inventory. The project will determine the best set of metrics during product lifecycle stages in order to measure supply chain performance, to estimate total product volumes, and to minimize end-of-life inventory. The study will use a product lifecycle framework to evaluate the metrics used by Ciena now and those suggested through the study of other companies. The data from several of Ciena’s historical products will be evaluated using these metrics and the framework. A supply chain process model will be simulated using the proposed metrics and supply chain data to evaluate potential supply chain performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vincent Thomson

Student:

Afrooz Moatari-Kazerouni

Partner:

Ciena Corp.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Centre for Operations Excellence Industry Projects 2015

The Centre for Operations Excellence Industry Projects consists of five sub-projects sponsored by four different industry partners. Each sub-project represents an important challenge for its sponsor. These sub-projects include using analytics to optimize sawmill production for Interfor; production planning for Tree Island; developing text-mining techniques to enable WorkSafeBC to predict and prevent workplace accidents; using Twitter data to enrich Boeing Canada’s maintenance and operations planning tools; and performing human resources analytics to improve Boeing Canada’s workforce planning.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harish Krishnan

Student:

Yao Tang

Partner:

Boeing Canada Operations Ltd.

Discipline:

Operations research

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Increasing energy conservation through tenant engagement in high rise buildings in Toronto

Residential high-rise buildings consume large amounts of energy for their cooling and heating needs. A large portion of this energy is wasted due to aging infrastructure, lack of proper maintenance, and occupants’ lack of awareness about energy conservation measures. While the economic and environmental benefits of physical retrofit of aging high-rises is well understood in terms of return of investment (ROI), the same understanding is very limited as it relates to economic, environmental as well as social benefits of engaging occupants. In recent years, a number of case studies have focused on strategies for engaging tenants in order to achieve additional savings beyond typical physical upgrades, however, there is still no coherent established practice that would identify a framework and tangible processes for a sustainable service involving tenant engagement strategies. Hence, this proposal aims to
identify, review and synthesize successful case studies in order to shed light on this area of research and inform the development of tenant engagement processes. This project benefits Imagine My City as it increases their capacity to advance its mandate to enable and increase productive and meaningful community-based research on issues related to the built environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Walsh

Student:

Pallavi Roy

Partner:

Imagine My City

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Interactive visualization tool for managing advertising campaigns

The goal of this research is to investigate, design and evaluate user-adaptive visualization systems, which personalize interaction based on the individual needs of a given user. In order to achieve this goal, a visualization system is required as a starting point with which to carry out this research. As a first step, this research aims to build an interactive visualization tool that will better support East Side Games Studio at managing advertising campaigns. Proposed functionality will consist of aggregating data across multiple sources, better real-time tracking of ads, and ability to manage multiple ads within and between various advertisers. The overall
goal of this project is to increase the number players in their games as well as user spending and also providing the visualization tool for user-adaptive visualization system research of the intern’s PhD.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cristina Conati

Student:

Dereck Toker

Partner:

East Side Games

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Mobile Phone Based Ionizing Radiation Detector Optimization

The GammaGuard is the mobile application which the user can be used to detect radiation level by using detectors, in our research they are called CT 100 and CT007, or using mobile camera. The previous work was only focusing on the CT 007 which used the classic Bluetooth technology. In CT 100, the Bluetooth low energy is used for device connection. BLE requires lower energy and higher data transfer speed. The partner will design and implement the application for CT100 and merger it into the one only supports CT007 so that the user can choose between these two. After the data comes in, the data can be shared and synchronized among multiple mobile devices. Beside the external detector, this research will also focus on adding the camera detection into the application. In this case, the users can detect the radiation level without using any external devices but mobile itself. The intern will design and implement the algorithm for the camera detection. For the partner organization, after the whole project finished, EIC will have both an Android (in Java) and iOS (in Xamarin) version of the BTLE and camera radiation detector app.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Deters

Student:

Gao Su

Partner:

Environmental Instruments Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Static Voltage-Dependent Models and Conservation Voltage Reduction Factor for Load Reactive Power Component

In this project, mathematical models for estimating the behavior of electric appliances are derived using field measurements. These models are then used to estimate the amount of energy savings that can be achieved on each area, depending on the types of customers connected to each particular electric circuit. The outcomes of this project can be used in identifying the best locations in terms of achievable savings for implementing the energy conservation techniques within the BC Hydro system. Saving energy can benefit the environment and contribute in addressing the global warming issue.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jose Marti

Student:

Hamed Ahmadi

Partner:

BC Hydro

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development and Characterization of All-in-OneEthanol Based Diesel Fuel Additive

The main objective of this research project is to obtain an additive helps to increase the cetane number as well
as reducing fuel consumption in diesel engines. In the proposed study, we will perform the characterization of
available petroleum diesel and analyze their properties. The ethanol based additive later will be added in several
different ratios into the diesel fuel to see their effect on fuel properties (CN, lubricity, emission and distillation
T90). As a result, PE Fuels technology will offer clients, a solution that uses denatured ethanol as a base for the
additive, highly concentrated formula that helps engines run cleaner, reducing toxic emissions, increasing miles
per gallon (MPG) and decreasing maintenance costs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nader Mahinpey

Student:

Ramon Arturo Gomez

Partner:

PE Fuels Solutions

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Prove RightsEnforcer Cross-Platform Development Strategy and SDE

RightsEnforcer is a software system for Persistent Document Security, deployed and proven in the real world as a Windows-only client-server system. ‘Persistent’ information security controls access to the protected document, everywhere, always, and is therefore uniquely suited to be a dominant information security technology in ‘the Cloud’. But to thrive in the Cloud the RightsEnforcer client (more or less ‘end user app’) must be multi- or cross-platform, i.e. the end user component must run and offer almost identical functionality on all the popular end user devices, including those running operating systems iOS and Android. Therefore, the intern of this project will be responsible to develop the mobile clients of RightsEnforcer that can run on iOS and Android. During the development, the intern needs to solve several challenges including how to wrap/unwrap data via AES algorithm, how to coordinate multiple devices for tracking the uses of sensitive data, and how to write reusable and compatible cross-platform codes. The partners will get an cross-platform software with good user experience that can run on iOS and Android devices. They can use these approaches to replenish their products line and refine the current solution to make it hit the market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Deters

Student:

Xiaodan Li

Partner:

Environmental Instruments Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

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