Grants and Contributions

Hiring of a specialist to strengthen the capabilities of the Quality Assurance department, for the improvement of the quality of customer products and in-house formulations.

This Commissioning Project will involve the commissioning and fine-tuning of the AmpClad manufacturing line and equipment in order to produce vitreous coated pipe according to AmpClad's patented and proprietary techniques. It will also execute an important knowledge transfer on glass composite coatings to AmpClad personnel as well as establish a critical FTE Manufacturing Lead position and develop a field coupling technique which are needed for the company's future success.

Youth position to fill critical gap in rapidly growing finished goods market segment for Motif.

Canada Arts Presentation Fund - Programming Support

Strategic priority for firearms safety training.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

CIDCO will leverage the concept of crowdsourcing bathymetric data collection through opportunity commercial vessells by fitting large ships with bathymetric dataloggers, and installing data transfer stations at strategic locations. This will allow raw data to be automatically harvested from the ships and sent to a data processing cloud backend that will transform the raw crowdsourced bathymetric (CSB) data into quality products suitable for active monitoring of the St-Lawrence Seaway and possible integration into the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) data products and services while respecting the required quality assurance and control standards provided by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO).

This project focuses on the impact of temperature increase on the marine phytoplankton and their associated communities. The effects of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) increase and Marine Heat Wave (MHW) events on the plankton communities will be experimentally studied and compared to a detailed time-series of phytoplankton and microbial community composition acquired from environmental DNA (eDNA) since 2014. A novel focus to time-series observations will provide detailed
knowledge of the key species (ranging from microbe to metazoans) associated with dominant phytoplankton species within the NWA ecosystem. The potential effect of MHW on the natural communities of phytoplankton of a coastal ecosystem in manipulative incubations of water samples at ambient and elevated temperatures. Novel phytoplankton species will be isolated and cultivated in the laboratory and used for manipulative temperature shift experiments.

This applied research project goal is to design and build a complex optomechanical system assembly to be used in the Gemini Planet Imager facility calibration subsystem instrument. The main challenge is to minimize the relative displacement between two optical components during observation. The relative movement is in the order of 0.0005° while in operation. This error is created by parasitical vibrations and thermal distortion.

The proposed project will deliver a 5G-based and Internet-of-Things-enabled connected worker platform that empowers frontline workers to improve work safety, quality, productivity, and job satisfaction. The core of this research is a 5G-based smartphone sensor hub, provides not only a front-end interface for frontline workers but also acts as a 5G edge device fusing a very large amount of heterogeneous wearable sensor data for performing Movement AI predictions in real-time. Example Movement AI predictions include fatigue and stress prediction, activities detection, ultra-fine resolution geo-fencing, in-door localization, frontline worker First Time Right (FTR) rate, overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), and more.