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Edmonton, AB — Project teams at Ledcor Group — one of Canada’s largest multi-discipline construction companies — are taking a reality check. Thanks to the ingenuity of Mitacs researchers at the University of Alberta, they are successfully blending the virtual world of 3D models with real world imagery, giving them a hands-on way to manage large […]

Vancouver, BC — Canadian companies will have the opportunity to recruit new talent by connecting with post-secondary students looking to start their careers through a pilot initiative called Mitacs Career Connect. The initiative helps companies gain highly qualified talent to grow their business while providing work experience for recent graduates. Interns must be under 30 years […]

If you knew a flood was coming — and you could predict the water level and damages — your evacuation and response would be dramatically improved. Such a tool might have helped the Dundas community back in April, when a month’s worth of rain fell in a single day. The flooding at Spencer Creek caused […]

A spin-off company from the University of British Columbia is promising to make a crap job a good deal easier and cleaner, with a scalable waste-processing system. Manure management practices on local dairy farms routinely raise a stink from their residential neighbours when the slurry is sprayed on fields, as well as from American farmers […]

An affordable, self-driving wheelchair is the latest innovation coming out of a summer internship program at the University of Toronto, and it could be rolling out very soon. Xinyi Li, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student from Zhejiang University in China, is in Toronto on a 12-week internship funded by Mitacs Globalink. “The wheelchair is amazing. It […]

A Mitacs Globalink intern is contributing to the research this summer. Mitacs Globalink is funded by the Government of Canada in the province of Ontario.

A team of Canadian researchers and robotics experts say they’ve developed cost-effective technology that would allow power wheelchairs to drive themselves. Toronto-based Cyberworks Robotics and the University of Toronto have applied the same principles at work in self-driving cars, saying using similar types of sensors on motorized wheelchairs can allow the mobility aids to dodge […]

Self-driving technology has rolled into the city with a University of Toronto-created autonomous wheelchair. The wheelchair was seen cruising down the atrium of the University of Toronto’s Bahen Centre for Information Technology last week, pausing for a person in its path before rotating around them — all without a driver. It’s a prototype that uses […]

Vancouver, BC — Mitacs, a national non-profit research and training organization, announced its year-end highlights today for the period ending March 31, 2017. Last year, Mitacs delivered 4,261 research internships with universities and industry, trained close to 4,100 students and postdocs, and facilitated 738 international research collaborations — all representing $71.9 million in funding towards […]

A local initiative between the University of Alberta and Ledcor Group strives to bring construction visualization into a new dimension.   Students in the U of A’s civil and environmental engineering department are in the final stages of developing a new virtual platform aimed at simplifying the planning, monitoring and management of construction projects .   “It’s […]

Canada has an opportunity to establish itself among the best performing countries in science and innovation. At a time when the current international situation is creating uncertainty for scientists, researchers and innovators around the world, Canada’s commitment to diversity and inclusiveness is making Canada an especially attractive destination. Recent initiatives such as the federal government’s […]

Rod Wales of Ledcor Construction explains how the company partnered with researchers from the University of Alberta to advance construction modelling to make your summer commute faster. Mitacs Accelerate is funded by Alberta Innovates and the Government of Canada in the province of Alberta.