Grants and Contributions

Project to create a word font shaped by the unique needs of individuals with low vision, called Infinity Font.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support ELAP scholarship recipients to participate in a virtual Leadership Series.

The City of St.Jean will rehabilitate the Pumping station to provincial standards to a design meeting the requirements of both city and DND.

Covey Hill's apple producers’ in action for the conservation and recovery of the Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander and other species at risk

To assist Kebaowek First Nation in participating at the Commission hearing related to BWXT Medical Ltd.'s application for a Class IB nuclear substance processing facility operating licence.

This project will install innovative technology in a forest products facility in Canada.

This project will install innovative technology in a forest products facility in Canada.

The improvement and optimization of crop roots are a significant opportunity for ensuring crops are adapted, resilient and productive within Canada’s diverse hydro-climatic conditions. High-throughput phenotyping methodologies have been developed for crop roots but many challenges remain to optimize the imaging systems for automation efficiency, precision, and ease-of-use. Three dimensional (3D) imaging of plants is superior to two dimensional (2D) approaches and is being applied in numerous phenotyping applications globally to advance genetic gain. The Project focuses on the development of an enhanced 3D root phenotyping platform with step-change improvements to both imaging and trait analysis pipeline including data capture, segmentation, skeletonization, 3D reconstruction and trait extraction and analysis using AI and deep-learning methods as critical advancements. The ultimate output will be a high-throughput platform that facilitates superior 3D root phenotyping capturing low- and high-level vision details to quantitatively extract and model the complexity of crop root system architecture and development.

Modern aircrafts have deicing systems normally using 1) special materials, 2) weeping anti-ice fluid, 3) heated bleeding air, 4) electrical heaters, 5) pneumatic boots, or 6) vibrating electro-mechanical surfaces placed at the leading edge of the wings and horizontal stabilizers.

This project addresses the development of next generation 5G wireless networks. The quest for additional spectrum at millimetre-wave frequencies poses fundamental challenges in radio-frequency communications including the need for more bandwidth, high propagation loss as well as inability to adapt to changes in environmental and operational conditions. Additive manufacturing will be used to implement RF lenses and Antennas with Gradient-index (GRIN) operating at X-band. Using vat polymerization 3D printing, this project proposed to evaluate the properties of GRIN lenses with active control using Ferro-magnetic materials. Characterization of the ferro-electric materials at high frequency will lead to a demonstration of this process in robust RF lenses capable of mulitplexing RF signals with low-loss while also capable of adapting via magnetic control. The proposed active control will also be transparent to the RF signal thus resulting in high-quality transmission at millimetre-wave frequencies. The proposed implementation using 3D additive printing will add more design flexibility.