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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering - chemical / biological

Design of Low-Loss Plastic Optical Fiber based on Fluorinated Polymer

This project will be with Vena Medical that focused on creating a forward viewing imaging microcatheter to provide a real-time navigational perspective for interventional physicians. The Vena Microcatheter will make interventional procedures faster, easier, and safer for both patients and physicians. This project will investigate the novel polymer optical fiber with high flexibility and high-quality image transmittance for medical microcatheter. This project will provide tremendous advantage to Vena Medical providing new opportunities to extract the maximum value from our low valued Canadian microcatheter products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Charpentier

Student:

Hanna Qin

Partner:

Vena Medical

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Characterization of floc properties in mineral tailings

Formation of aggregates and flocs from fine suspended particles is of great significance in industrial applications involving solid-liquid separation (dewatering) stages, whose objective is to clean and recycle water. Fine particles in waste suspensions are inherently difficult to remove from process water. As a result, a number of steps are taken to increase the size of the particles, typically by aggregation using various chemicals. Resistance of the aggregates (strength) to external forces affects the efficiency of solid-liquid separation. However, no systematic tools and methods exist to measure aggregate properties. The main objective of this proposal is to develop methods to measure aggregate strength, and to correlate the strength with physical properties such density, size, and solids content. The proposed research will involve a number of advanced measuring techniques. The results of these studies will enhance our understanding of the behavior of mineral slurries during dewatering operations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marek Pawlik

Student:

Hamid Alizadeh;Michael (Ryan) MacIver;Hiten Sulakh

Partner:

BC Research Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Developing solutions for safer harvesting techniques on steep terrain – Year two

The forest industry in British Columbia (BC) is facing increasingly difficult challenges regarding fibre supply. New winch-assist technology that enables fully mechanized ground-based forest harvesting on steep terrain has been increasingly used in BC since 2016. The new systems have improved safety and provide access to fibre that was previously uneconomic. New low-consumption small-size cable yarders have also received increasing interest in non-trafficable terrain. Both the winch-assist and the cable yarding systems have similar issues related to the use of tensioned wire ropes and natural anchors (stumps or trees).Rope and anchor failures have serious safety risks for the operators and the forest industry as a whole. To date, only a few studies focused on cable tensile force analysis and suitability of trees or stumps as anchors. This research aims to study the behaviour of cable-supported systems and anchors under varying conditions and improve safe practices of the newly introduced technology in BC.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dominik Roeser

Student:

Omar Mologni

Partner:

FPInnovations

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Elevate

Adaptive Slicing for Intelligent Network Automation

The forthcoming 5G networks will be much more complex than their predecessors. They are on the verge of a generational transformation driven by the coverage, connectivity, availability, speed and latency demands of 5G. 5G networks will use network slicing to open up the network “as a service” to various third parties and their diversified applications, e.g., from autonomous vehicle control to massive machine-type communication for IoT devices. As a result, traditional monitoring tools designed only for the network layer will be no longer be fit for purpose in this new 5G environment.
In such a environment, humans will simply be incapable of managing the interplay and orchestration of the Quality of Service (Gos) on which applications depend. Artificial intelligence (AI) will therefore play an important role in orchestration by self-learning from network parameters KPIs to proactively manage actual QoS in real time.
The current project is consequently about the design of artificial intelligence models and algorithms to address the required QoS for 5G networks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brigitte Jaumard

Student:

Shivam Patel;Trong Tuan Tran

Partner:

Ciena Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Flexible Electronic Implant for Visual Rehabilitation

Presbyopia is an aging phenomenon that eventually affects 99.9% of the population and Aniridia is a rare genetic disease resulting in the absence of an iris. Currently, no treatment provides a dynamic solution for patients. We are creating a thin, flexible, biocompatible electronic device to rapidly control a bionic iris through a fast, reversible, wireless energy efficient process, providing a responsive and dynamic solution to both diseases. Successful completion of the project will significantly aid the partner organization to commercialize their device. This will lead to a significant impact in healthcare in Canada and worldwide, providing a dynamic surgical solution to for an orphan genetic disease and for presbyopia in cataract surgery, fulfilling a large unmet demand in the marketplace.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Keryn Lian

Student:

Haoran Wu

Partner:

Veritas Nano

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Changing children’s awareness and behavior toward environmentally sustainable practices through educative programs

In order to improve the understanding and awareness for students about the management of energy efficiency and environmentally sustainable practices, this study will evaluate the effectiveness on changing children’s awareness and behavior toward those aspects through of the implementation of educative material, previously developed by Nature’s Ride, by way of scholastic workshops on primary school children. This study is foreseen helping students gain a clearer understanding of energy-saving practices in their everyday life, to achieve a greater awareness level. A stage of the collection of research data will be done through the use of questionnaires, at the beginning and the end of the fall and winter semesters, to identify the effectiveness of the educative program on their awareness and behavioral change about environmentally sustainable practices. Consequently, according to the responses provided by each child, it will be determined the methodology that will allow an improvement in the educative program delivery to reach a superior grade of learning and consciousness by those students who will attend workshops.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Irene Herremans;Sarah St. Clair Skett

Student:

Karla Gabriela Ordaz

Partner:

Nature’s Ride

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Modeling and Optimization of the milling process of compressor rotors

Efficiency of rotary screw air compressors is highly dependent on the errors in the shape of their rotor profile caused by manufacturing errors. The current practice to determine these errors and compensate for them in the design stage involve an extensive amount of costly trials, which will not necessarily lead to an optimum design. In this project, physics-based computer simulations of the milling process of screw rotors of compressors will be developed to determine the resulting manufacturing errors and then to optimize the machining parameters to minimize them. Rotor profiles at VMAC will be used as case studies to verify the effectiveness of the developed simulations in reducing manufacturing errors. The results of this project are expected to contribute to developing compressors with enhanced efficiency and reduced manufacturing cost.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Keivan Ahmadi;Gary Wang

Student:

Xi Wang

Partner:

VMAC Global Technology Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Indigenous Co-Led Reclamation Research Project

This project will assist Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor) and Fort Mckay First Nation bring a Suncor mine site back to its original ecological state and environmental functions. To best achieve this, Fort Mckay First Nation and Suncor will work together to ensure the new restored site will support the traditional practices of Fort Mckay First Nation. The research team will analyze how Suncor and Fort Mckay First Nation work together, best utilizing both Scientific and intergenerational Indigenous Knowledge to restore this mine site. From this research Suncor will develop key lessons learned on how to effectively build relationships with indigenous communities and be a key player in Canada’s work to reconciliation with the indigenous peoples of Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel McCarthy

Student:

Alexandra Post

Partner:

Suncor Energy Oil Sands Limited Partnership

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

A multiplatform comparison of blood biomarkers in concussion research

Blood biomarkers have been an invaluable tool in concussion research. Through their use, we have improved our knowledge on the processes that occur in the brain and body following injury and have seen promise for future implementation in a clinical setting to inform injury severity, type, and treatment responses. However, many different biomarker technologies exist, and it is not clear to what extent they may differ, or whether results derived from them can be compared. Hence, validation is needed. The purpose of the current study is to compare two different biomarker systems on their utility in concussion research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Hutchison

Student:

Alex Di Battista

Partner:

Bio-Techne

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

UAV-assisted wireless communication system in remote areas

In Canada, less than 30% of the geography is covered by cellular systems. There are lots of human activities in these uncovered remote areas for either gaining nature resources or outdoor experience. In this scenario, the walkie talkie is the only and vital method helping people to build connection between each other, which can ensures their safety. Nevertheless, the signal of walkie talkie devices can be easily attenuated and/or blocked by complicated terrains such as the forest, large rock messes, and mountains. Besides, the remote workers, such as loggers, have also been suffered from the isolation for a long time due to the lack of connection to the outside world. Therefore, in this project, we propose to study and implement the drone-assisted wireless communication system for remote areas, which not only provides reliable connection among nearby users, but also connects the remote areas to the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lin Cai

Student:

Yue Li;Chengcheng Zhao

Partner:

Pigeon Communications

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Safety assessment and toxicity profile of a Manganese-based contrast agent

To design effective and patient-specific cancer therapy, sensitive detection of relapse and distant metastases by non-invasive medical imaging is essential, for which MRI offers tremendous potential due to wide availability of the equipment in clinic and avoidance of ionizing radiation. Although gadolinium-based contrast agents are the most frequently used for MRI, they are associated with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis and brain deposition. Thus, less toxic manganese ions (Mn 2+ ) are exploited as an alternative for tumor detection using MRI. Yet, the current formulations of Mn 2+ cannot provide desirable results due to low tumor uptake after systemic administration. To address the need, Nanology Labs offers a novel manganese-based MRI contrast agent which is able to detect solid tumors and brain metastasis at early stages. In this project we aim at evaluating the toxicity profile of the agent in an in-vivo setting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeffrey Henderson

Student:

Mohammad Ali Amini

Partner:

Nanology Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Photo-curable Polysiloxane Resins for Engineered Ferroelectret Films

Polymer ferroelectrets are light weight and flexible materials that display piezoelectric behaviour. These properties make them ideal for use as transducers in the aerospace industry. However, the traditional methods used to prepare high performance polymer ferroelectrets cannot be used for large scale manufacturing due to poor reproducibility or high cost. Furthermore, these manufacturing techniques rely on commercially available materials that are not intended for use as ferroelectrets. Due to these manufacturing challenges, polymer ferroelectrets have not been adopted for widespread use in industry. To address these barriers, we propose a novel two part approach that consists of: (1) developing polysiloxanes tailored to enhance the piezoelectric behaviour of the films and that are compatible with vat photopolymerization and (2) using vat photopolymerization to fabricate polysiloxane ferroelectret films with a highly ordered internal structure. Combining purpose made materials with an advanced additive manufacturing technique will allow for the fabrication of high performance ferroelectret films at an industrial scale. This will enable the industry partner to manufacture electronic devices incorporating polymer ferroelectrets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aaron Price

Student:

Nicholas Francis Shaun Lanigan

Partner:

DAVWIRE

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Elevate

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