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Optimal Two-Dimensional Energy Management of Grid-Connected Thermal/Electrical Hybrid Energy System

This project is designated to develop a next generation optimal two-dimensional energy management algorithm for a novel grid-connected thermal/electrical hybrid energy system. On-site implementation of the model and algorithm will be phased into a real community at an undisclosed location for performance evaluation. The results of this project can be directly used by the partner organization to reveal new energy generation and management products, which will have tremendous market potential due to the upcoming energy strategy change, as the Government of Canada is committed to a historic climate change agreement at COP 21.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hao Liang

Student:

Peng Zhuang

Partner:

Pomphrey Industries Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Stochastic optimization of a hydroelectric production system for the aluminium industry

Rio Tinto operates aluminium plants in Saguenay that are powered by their hydroelectric system. An efficient management of water available in the system is primordial to ensure energy supply to the aluminium smelters. This quantity is uncertain since the exact inflows in the reservoirs are unknown when decisions are taken. Stochastic optimization is used to make decisions under uncertainty. Mid-term optimization models determine reservoir volumes while short-term models dispatch the available water as efficiently as possible between the power plants and turbines in the system. The goal of this project is to develop operational optimization models for Rio Tinto by coupling the mid and short-term models and by developing a method to define a calendar of unit outages. The optimization models must consider energy demand, hydrologic forecast uncertainty as well as uncertainty linked to the outage of smelters. Their use leads to using water efficiently and operational costs reduction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amaury Tilmant

Student:

Sara Séguin

Partner:

Rio Tinto Alcan

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Energy

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Elevate

The Semaphorins, a role Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes both Crohn’s disease (CD), and ulcerative colitis (UC). Approximately 230,000 Canadians are affected by these diseases and they have important repercussions on quality of life and on both personal and societal direct and indirect costs. The cause(s) are poorly understood, and treatment is largely symptom-based and not curative. Commonly used drugs may have potentially important adverse effects such as cancer and serious infections. Moreover, some patients are resistant to these drugs. Therefore, safer and more efficient therapies are needed. There is some indication that a group of molecules implicated in immune cell attraction named semaphorins can regulate inflammation in the gut. This study aims to determine how semaphorin can be harnessed to reduce intestinal inflammation and ultimately serve as a safe therapeutic target in IBD. Our studies will use clinical, physiological and molecular tools to identify how a specific semaphorin, semaphorin3E is involved in targeting an antigen presenting cells called dendritic cells, in the inflammatory bowel disease states in humans and animal models. In summary, we will explore a new pathway implicated these cells response during intestinal inflammation that will provide a basis for possible new treatments of IBD. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Eric Ghia

Student:

Kunal Kapoor, Laetitia Kermarrec, Nour Eissa

Partner:

Crohn’s and Colitis Canada

Discipline:

Microbiology / Immunology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Point of Care Testing for Food Safety: Development of Rapid Assays for Salmonella and Campylobacter

Food safety is a major concern and current approaches may take weeks to detect harmful bacteria that has contaminated food. This project involves the development of a rapid detection test kit to allow food processors to see if food has been contaminated by potentially harmful bacteria before the food is sent to market. The interns’ main objectives are to develop these rapid test kits working with our industrial partner. The kit will benefit food processors by finding contamination before food is shipped from their plants while the consumer benefit by having safer food. The benefit to our industrial partner is that this will lead to new technology for a Canadian company that can be used to sell these kits world-wide.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Rieder

Student:

Yadira Tejeda Saldaña, Michael Greff, Awatif Abuzgaia

Partner:

Western University

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Western University

Program:

Canadian Science Policy Fellowship

Haptic Trim Actuator Test Bench Qualification for Safety of Flight

Exonetik and Bell Helicopter are developing a new technology providing force feedback to helicopter pilots, improving both safety and quality of flight. The technology will soon be tested in flight but preliminary qualification tests in laboratory must first be performed. In collaboration with Exonetik engineers, the intern will participate in the planning and execution of these qualification test as well as interpreting results and proposing design modifications as needed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Charron

Student:

Jeremy Marchetta-Fortin

Partner:

Exonetik Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Magneto-Rheological Shimmy Damper

During taxiing, takeoff or landing, parts of the landing gear of a commercial plane can undesirably oscillate. This is often the cause of premature wear of certain components. To reduce the impact of this phenomenon, the landing gear designers integrate mechanical elements whose function is to dissipate the kinetic energy associated with these undesirable oscillations. The objective of this project is to design an actuator using magneto-rheological fluid to replace these mechanical elements of the landing gear. The evaluation criteria for this design will be the complexity of the new architecture of the entire system, mass and performance of landing gear.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Charron

Student:

Mathieu Lamy

Partner:

Héroux-Devtek

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

En Route to 5G: Long-term Evolution (LTE) Enhancements for the Internet of Things (IoT) – Year Two

Cellular wireless communication has reached a level of coverage and reliability that it is considered a commodity. However, the dramatic increase in Internet traffic to and from wireless devices poses significant challenges for network operators. While the current growth of traffic is mostly due to consumers communicating more frequently and larger amounts of data over the wireless infrastructure, much of the future growth is predicted to come from non-human operated devices or so-called machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. M2M devices have mostly small amounts of data to communicate, but they will appear in massive numbers. This development is part of the vision of the “Internet of Things” that foresees Internet connectivity for almost everything we use in everyday life. The proposed project is a continuation of collaborative research between UBC and Sierra Wireless, a leader in the M2M space, with the objective to advance cellular wireless communication to support the IoT paradigm.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lutz Lampe

Student:

Ali Cirik

Partner:

Sierra Wireless

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Document Engineering via Semantic Correlations – Year Two

We propose to develop smart algorithms for document generation, by innovating in the field of natural language processing and document intelligence. We envision the next generation of business applications able to parse and understand documents, to compose documents automatically, and to respond intelligently to voice commands. Our industrial partner, Koneka Inc. has a document automation platform that generates documents by assembling clauses (content-blocks) together based on a set of user inputs. We propose to extend the company’s platform by designing advanced algorithms that will meet its R&D needs. We will design and implement a taxonomy framework that supports a weighted synonym approach and an algorithm that efficiently measures the correlation between an input text and a database of objects. We also aim to define a cost effective infrastructure which provides the ability to analyze a very large set of input texts, for several types of documents in different domains.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Diana Inkpen

Student:

Mohamed Mouine

Partner:

ReDock Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Elevate

Mathematical modeling of B-vitamin supply in dairy cows

The B vitamin requirements of cattle were traditionally satisfied via rumen microbial synthesis. However, the B vitamin demands of the modern high producing dairy cow now exceed the synthesis rate by rumen microbes, leading to sub-optimal milk production and efficiency. An increased understanding of dietary factors driving ruminal synthesis and use of B vitamins will help identify when supplementation will benefit the cow. Although B vitamin kinetics in the dairy cow have not previously been modelled, data on concentrations and flows are available from extant sources. This information will be used to develop models in order to increase our overall understanding of the factors affecting B vitamin synthesis in the rumen. Such a model will support the development of nutritional strategies to meet modern dairy cow requirements for B vitamins, delivering improved metabolic efficiency and health.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James France

Student:

Douglas Castagnino

Partner:

University of Guelph

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

From trees to bluebirds: the communication of conservation on Vancouver Island

The Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team (GOERT) is a non-government organization that endeavours to inform the public of their scientific findings and conservation goals. Social media has been used for conservation outreach, but the role of the public in sharing tweets and posts can have mixed effects. What information are shared by the public can either further share scientific information, maintain false information in the public sphere, or be ignored without any uptake. This research will help to measure impact of social media posts, and inform communication methods more engaging to the public. The project scope is to analyze Facebook posts and Tweets, give recommendations and develop a communications plan that will assist GOERT in improving their public outreach. By understanding how science information is effectively spread through social media, we will be able to apply it to increase support for conservation efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chaseten Remillard

Student:

Alina Fisher

Partner:

Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team

Discipline:

Cultural studies

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Royal Roads University

Program:

Accelerate

Performance Based Seismic Design Guidelines for Sprayed-FRP Retrofitted Circular Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns

The proposed study will develop seismic design guidelines for retrofitting deficient concrete bridge columns with sprayed fiber reinforced plastic (FRP). Seismically deficient bridge columns (with different aspect ratios and transverse reinforcement ratios) retrofitted with composites will be tested under reverse cyclic loading. The tests will determine various damage states in terms of strain and drift. Extensive nonlinear finite element analyses (FEA) will be performed to simulate the experiments, and predict their responses and limit states The interactions of various parameters on limit states will be determined, and regression equations will be proposed for their predictions. Finally, performance-based design guidelines/tools will be developed for the seismic retrofit of deficient bridge piers. This research will lead Canada to a sustainable solution for strengthening and retrofitting of highway bridge infrastructure system. The supporting organization will benefit significantly as the proposed research will help them offer a new service that align within their portfolio.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ehab El-Salakawy

Student:

Anantray Parghi

Partner:

POLYRAP Pavement System Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Elevate

Design of an Interface for the Intuitive Control of a Unmanned Air Vehicle fleet in Emergency Situations

The project consist of developing a novel interface to control a fleet of quadcopters in an emergency situation. The interactive system will have to interpret the user intent in such a way that minimum cognitive resources are required. Humanitas products target non experts in robotics whom need to maximize their concentration on medical support and logistic, thus they require an intuitive and not monopolizing control interface. It will also be required that feedback information can be sent to the user without using the visual feedback of their application control screen. The sensors selected to gather relevant data on the user intents will also serve to enhance the situation awareness of the crew and be shared over the network to inform about each user state. The solution will rely on minimal low-cost hardware on each users and high-level behavioral algorithm to ensure the quadcopter fleet is autonomous.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Giovanni Beltrame

Student:

David St-Onge

Partner:

Humanitas Solutions

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Elevate

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