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Asset Information Modelling for Non-Urban Environments (AIM-NUE)

In 2016, in partnership with The Ontario East Economic Development Commission (OEED), we started exploring the potential of AIM to represent and manage multi-dimensional graphic and semantic assets related to a geospatially large (40,000+km2), non-urban environment in Eastern Ontario. The area under study is comprised primarily of what Statistics Canada identifies as “rural and small town” (RST) census subdivisions with varying degrees of metropolitan influence. The objective of the project is to develop a web-based, three-dimensional model that could be used to create, manage, and valorize digital assets related to economic activity in the regio

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Fai

Student:

Amitav Shaw;Mehak Mustafa;Miquel Reina Ortiz;Rehab Salama

Partner:

Ontario East Economic Development Commission

Discipline:

Architecture and design

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Wise Practices in Indigenous Entrepreneurship Education

In partnership with Tribal Resource Investment Corporation (TRICORP), the University of Victoria (UVic) Gustavson School of Business co-created and designed the Aboriginal Canadian Entrepreneurs (ACE) program. The ACE program provides entrepreneurial training, mentorship and coaching for members of First Nations communities, governments and financial institutions in their home communities. While the ACE program has made tremendous effort to weave Indigenous ways of knowing with “mainstream” entrepreneurship, past and present ACE students have continuously asked for more culturally relevant approaches to business and entrepreneurial education in Indigenous communities. This proposed research will seek to improve the curriculum of the ACE program by further exploring entrepreneurial business education through a wise practice lens. “Wise practices” are locally and culturally appropriate practices and principles (Wesley-Esquimaux & Calliou, 2010). The proposed research project would use the ACE program to identify the “wise practices” for business and entrepreneurial education and measure how it affects student outcomes, success, and learning using participatory action research (PAR) and other culturally appropriate qualitative methods.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brent Mainprize

Student:

Magnolia Perron

Partner:

Tribal Resources Investment Corporation

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Functional Calcium Imaging with Quartet®, for studying odor memory circuits

1 in 5 people suffer from a mental illness, such as depression, Alzheimer’s & Parkinon’s during their lifetime. Currently, there are no treatments for these diseases, because the underlying causes of these diseases is not known. Neurescence has developed a technology that is essential for understanding how local and long range neuronal circuits form to create healthy brain function, hence understand how these neuronal circuits are disrupted in each disease. This project is related in developing the techniques required to use this technology and the creation of training material, enabling Neurescence to offer training to its customers along side the technology, hence facilitate technology adoption. The result is not only helping to push our knowledge of the brain to find treatments for its diseases, but also helping Neurescence realize its commercial goals, resulting into creation of jobs for highly skilled workers in STEM fields.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Junchul Kim

Student:

Roshni Christo

Partner:

Neurescence Inc.

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Optimizing the use of recycled treated fines in eco-efficient concrete mixtures

Concrete is a major construction material used worldwide responsible for the production of roughly 7% of total global carbon dioxide emissions. The extent of its environmental impact relates to the energy embodied in extraction and transportation of concrete aggregates with a direct link to the amount of Portland cement (PC) used to bind the raw materials. Recent advances in design protocols, packing models, and geopolymers are increasingly being used to minimize concrete’s carbon footprint and to produce PC free mixes. In this study, we plan on using recycled materials, such as those derived from concrete construction projects, to offset raw material requirements. Yet little is known of how recycled and treated soil fines affect concrete and geopolymer mixtures in the fresh and hardened states. Using the above mentioned techniques, this work aims to incorporate recycled and treated fine materials into concrete and geopolymer mixtures at proportions that minimally affect performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leandro Sanchez

Student:

Ana Bergmann

Partner:

Northex Environement

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

A blood test to diagnose western red-cedar asthma

Western red-cedar asthma (WRCA) is the most common form of occupational asthma in British Columbia and is caused by sensitivity to a molecule found in the wood called plicatic acid (PA). Patients suspected of having WRCA must complete two inhalational challenges to determine sensitivity to PA, an expensive and time-consuming process. There is need for a cheaper and quicker method of diagnosis. Blood is relatively easy to access and useful in studying WRCA. Changes were observed in the blood-based molecular biomarkers in WRCA patients during inhalational challenges. I propose that I can develop a blood-based panel of genes to diagnose WRCA.
PROOF specializes in developing blood-based biomarker diagnostic tests to reduce cost and time associated with diagnosing diseases. Since there is no test that can diagnose WRCA without inhalational challenges, PROOF would benefit from this collaboration in developing a blood test capable of diagnosing WRCA in a clinical setting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Scott Tebbutt

Student:

Jinelle Panton

Partner:

Centre of Excellence for the Prevention of Organ Failure

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Wearable Continuous Health Monitoring Device Capable of Early Detection of COVID-19 in Patients and Tracking Their Health Condition

Continuous monitoring of respiratory rate, blood oxygen level and body temperature is vital for early detection of COVID-19 among patients and monitoring their health condition. Early detection of COVID-19 is crucial for successful treatment of this deadly disease. Unfortunately, most of the COVID-19 patients do not indicate any serious symptom such as breathing problem in early stage of this disease. And by the time they do, they have alarmingly low oxygen levels and moderate-to-severe pneumonia which in many cases does not have any treatment and leads to death. The purpose of this study is to develop a low-cost wearable technology that can continuously and accurately measures respiratory rate, blood oxygen level and body temperature in wide range, in order to be used for early diagnosis of COVID-19 among patients and monitoring their health condition changes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hilmi Dajani

Student:

Seyyed Hesabgar

Partner:

VitalTracer Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Automated Part Numbering for 3D Printed Medical Devices for Covid-19 Response using Generative Design Methodologies

Thousands of 3D printers across Canada are producing PPE for frontline workers. Different printers and materials affect the quality and safe re-usability of parts. Trying to track down this information for every single one of millions of parts would be impossible. The purpose of this project is to improve the quality and safe re-use of 3D printed PPE by developing a system for printing a unique identification code onto every single part that will let end users know what type of material was used and how and when the part was printed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Keith Doyle

Student:

Richard Kennedy

Partner:

3DQue Systems

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Program:

Accelerate

Analysis, design, and implementation of a recommendation engine to suggest charities

The goal of this research is to investigate and build a recommendation system that suggests charities to users based on their previous donations. One of the first successful recommendation systems was Amazon’s “Customers who bought this, also bought…”. This recommendation system focuses mainly on making it easier for users to find relevant information and increasing sales. The main challenge with this research is to investigate the differences between commercially implemented e-commerce recommendation systems and a recommendation system driven by altruistic goals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Pauchard;Mohammad Moshirpour

Student:

Sourabh Mokhasi;Pablo Adames

Partner:

Benevity Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Ovarian Cancer Research Program

Ovarian cancer has a high mortality rate and cannot be detected by screening. Strategies to decrease the burden of OC in Canada will need to improve the delivery of effective prevention, particularly risk-reducing surgery. This initiative is designed to execute three projects that focus on possible strategies to improve the effective delivery of evidence-based OC prevention for women in NL.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lesa Dawson;Brenda Wilson;Kathleen Hodgkinson;Holly Etchegary

Student:

Brittany Flood;Tahereh Zadanedini Masouleh

Partner:

Belles with Balls

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

A combined fluid dynamic and strain analysis approach for non-invasive estimate of local aortic wall properties and aortic wall strength mapping

Aortic aneurysms are the result of a complex process that culminates in an irreversible loss of structural integrity of the aortic wall with consequent weakening and dilatation associated with rupture risk and high mortality. Clinicians have expressed strong interest in information that would help them determine the actual structural integrity of the vessel and guide disease management with the potential to decrease risk for rupture and mortality.
We propose an approach that combines information on the fluid dynamics of blood, one of the factors involved in the process that weakens the aorta, and deformation as a means to non-invasively estimate the local state of the aortic wall. This technology will provide clinicians with a tool to virtually “touch” the aorta and assess its local strength. The intern will develop the combined approach by integrating the technology of the partner organization with descriptors of aortic fluid dynamics and providing a complete workflow for the definition of a novel index aimed at estimating the local risk of rupture of the aortic wall for individual AAAs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elena Di Martino;Artem Korobenko

Student:

Arianna Forneris

Partner:

ViTAA Medical Solutions Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Novel Perovskite Nanoparticle Water Quality Sensor

The proposed research aims to manufacture smart water sensors for real-time monitoring of Canadian watersheds’ quality. The need for clean water is constant for communities across Canada. With growing concerns related to organic pollutants entering the water supply, the treatment of drinking water and water systems, and their health effects a need has been sown. The requirement for rapid, high accuracy and low cost water quality sensors is as prevalent now as at any point in the past. One pollutant source comes in the form of organic molecules, often hydrocarbon wastes from manufacturing, or hormones given off from animal excrement. Tracking the dissipation and sequestration of organic molecules in a water body is critical to watershed health. In cities, these systems help identify and treat some of the symptoms of urban stream syndrome. The research will increase Canada’s scientific and engineering capabilities in water quality monitoring. As a result, Canada will benefit of high-skilled interns to the workforce in the addition of its ability to compete in the global water marketplace.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mustafa Yavuz;Eihab Abdel-Rahman

Student:

Bersu Bastug Azer;Joel Pennings;Nicholas Pfeifle;Junaid Siddiqui;Ahmet Gulsaran

Partner:

Mantech Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Western science to produce value-added fishery products in northern Manitoba

Wastage threatens the sustainability of fisheries, ecosystem integrity and the food sovereignty of Indigenous communities. This project will explore the promise of value-added fish products in order to improve productivity and revenue of Indigenous fisheries. This project centers on Indigenous values, traditions and community priorities as these products are developed in collaboration with fishers from Grand Rapids. The partner organization will further develop new valued-added fish products with high nutritional and economic value and raise awareness of these products in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephane McLachlan

Student:

Maya Rad-Spice

Partner:

Farmafeed Consulting

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

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