Polytechnique Montréal Summer Research Internship

POLYTECHNIQUE MONTRÉAL 2019 SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP

Founded in 1873, Polytechnique Montréal is a leading Canadian university for the scope and intensity of its engineering research and industrial partnerships. It is ranked #1 for the number of Canada Research Chairs in Engineering, the most prestigious research funding in the country, and is also first in Québec for the size of its student body and the scope of its research activities. Polytechnique Montréal has laboratories at the cutting edge of technology thanks to funding of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars from the Canada Foundation for Innovation over the past 10 years. In 2017, Montreal ranked 1st for best student cities! Come and experience the pleasures of a fantastic summer in Québec where there is no time to be bothered with all the festivals!

Research Internship Program Required Documents for Application A research internship is a research activity that is an integral part of a (in French or in English) visiting student’s academic program at the home institution. Each year, ■ Application Form; Polytechnique’s research units welcome more than 250 students from ■ Letter of motivation including the following information (if you have other universities wishing to put into practice the technical and scientific selected 2 research projects, provide a letter of motivation for each knowledge acquired in their studies. The research conducted is supervised project): by a professor of Polytechnique and is always related to needs expressed • explanations of your interest in working in the selected project by society or companies, and can be made in laboratories or in situ. • your skills in respect to the project Duration ■ Curriculum vitae (CV); Copy of your most recent academic transcript; The recommended duration of the internship is a minimum of 4 months, ■ Proof of a full-time enrollment from your home institution (the letter usually taking place between May and August 2019. Once the admission ■ must confirm that you are currently enrolled in a full-time program to the program has been confirmed, no change in the duration and the and will continue to be enrolled upon your return); dates can be made. Please confirm the research duration with your home If possible, a copy of an internship report made in the past. institution supervisor before application. ■ Financial Arrangement To enhance your chances to be selected, choose 2 research projects. It can be 2 research projects from the list or 1 research project from the ■ Tuition fee waiver for the duration of the internship; list and 1 supervisor from the Directory of Expertises! ■ Free transportation from the airport to your place of residence upon your arrival; ■ Employer Compliance Fee of $230 CAD covered by Polytechnique Application Deadline Montréal (once the internship is confirmed, the work permit applicant All documents must be sent electronically by January 15, 2019 must pay the requested immigration fee). to the International Relations Office of Polytechnique Montréal: [email protected]. Please specify in the subject “2019 Summer Research Outstanding candidates may receive one of the 15 Internship Program”. Note that a conference call via Skype may be scholarships available! Amount of the scholarship: $1000 CAD organized if needed for final selection. per month for a maximum of 4 months. Announcement Eligibility Criteria The results will be announced in February 2019 to each candidate. ■ Being enrolled in one of Polytechnique Montréal’s partner universities; Selected candidates will receive an “Offer of Employment to a Foreign ■ Having completed at least two years of an engineering undergraduate National Exempt from a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA)” program or at least one year of a graduate program (Master or Ph.D.) and will have to apply for a Work Permit at the Canadian Visa office according to projects’ requirements as described in the following that serves the area they live in. It is possible that the new Public Policy – pages; Short-term (120) work permit exemption for researchers will allow you ■ Having a minimum GPA of 2.75 out of 4; to be exempted from a work permit. ■ Meet the specific skills equiredr by the supervisor if any; ■ Being fluent in French or in English (no language proficiency test is For any question regarding your application, please contact: required). International Relations Office ■ [email protected] POLYTECHNIQUE MONTRÉAL 2019 summer RESEARCH INTERNSHIP LIST OF RESEARCH PROJECTS

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Aerospace Engineering Computer and Software Engineering 1 Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing of Structures in 27 Engineering and Operations of a Data-Intensive Software Composite Materials System 2 Control of a Convertible Drone 28 Control of a Multi-Robot Planetary Exploration System 3 Automatic Landing of a Drone on a Moving Vehicle 29 Swarm Programming for Tiny Robots 4 Additive Manufacturing of 3D Printing of Multi-material 30 Debugging Strategies for Swarm Robotics Composite Systems 31 Software Engineering for Robotics 32 Human-Multi-Robot Interfaces Biomedical Engineering 33 Autonomous UAV Recharge from a Robotic Platform 5 Twisted String Actuation in the Design of an Artificial Finger 34 Flexible real-time Systems for Closed-loop Stimulation in 6 Conducting Polymer Electrodes for Biological Applications Neuroscientific Research 7 Self-healing Properties of Conducting Polymer Films 35 Supporting Early-stage User-centered Design with Machine 8 Protein-based Bioelectronic Devices Learning Technologies 9 Bactericidal Effect of Superhydrofobic Surfaces Functionalized 36 Programming of IoT Devices for Advanced Manufacturing Plateforms 10 Biothermodynamics Applied to Biomechanics 11 Regulation and Standard Processes for Dental Devices: a Pathway to Market Mathematics and Industrial Engineering 37 Automatic Detection of Convexity for Optimization 12 Innovation in Toothbrush Design Life Cycle Automatic Detection of Partially-Separable Structure 13 Auxetic Biomaterial Applied to Biomechanics the Knee Joint 38 Efficient Solution of Ill-Posed Optimization Problems 14 Advancing the Field of 3D Biomaterial Printing for Dental 39 Application 40 Infrastructure of the GALAHAD Library for Optimization 15 Formulation and Evaluation of Semisolid Preparation Mechanical Engineering Chemical Engineering 41 Design and Fabrication of a Legged Robot Prototype: Phase II 16 Debromination and Recycling of Styrenic Polymers 42 Optimisation, Fabrication and Test of an Adaptable Vice-grip 17 Fischer Tropsch Catalyst Design for Fluidized Bed Reactor 43 Experimental Study of the Effective Thermal Conductivity of (Micro Refinery Unit) Granular Beds 18 Catalytic Depolymerization of PMMA in an Extruder 19 PMMA Depolymerization in a Fluidized Bed in Pilot-scale 20 Catalytic Depolymerisation of Poly(Methyl Methacrilate) to Methacrylic Acid 21 Micro Refinery Unit, GTL 22 Photochemical Surface Engineering of Nanomaterials

Civil, Geological and/or Mining Engineering 23 Effect of Climate Change on the Reclamation of Mine Sites 24 Integrated Mine Waste Management to Prevent Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) 25 Scale Effects on Hydrogeotechnical Properties of Coarse Waste Rock 26 High Performance Computing and Simulation of Fluid Flow POLYTECHNIQUE MONTRÉAL 2019 summer RESEARCH INTERNSHIP ADDITIONAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE

You didn’t find what you were looking for? ■ Browse our professors’ directory by area of expertise: www.polymtl.ca/recherche/rc/en/expertises ■ Submit the area of expertise you would like to work on and provide the names of 2-3 professors working in this field. ■ Explain in your letter of motivation why you would like to do a research internship in this area. ■ The International Relations Office will try to find the appropriate match for you!

Here are some ideas: ■ Aerospace Engineering ■ Electric and Electronic Engineering ■ Materials Science and Technology ■ Applied Mathematics ■ Environmental Engineering ■ Mechanical Engineering ■ Artificial Intelligence ■ Fluid Mechanics ■ Mining and Mineral Processing ■ Biomedical Engineering ■ Fuel and Energy Technology ■ Nuclear Engineering ■ Chemical Engineering ■ Hydrology ■ Physics Engineering ■ Civil Engineering ■ Industrial Engineering ■ Robotics ■ Computer and Software Engineering ■ Information Technology ■ Structural Engineering ■ Design and Manufacturing

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Study the manufacturing of high end composite materials using dedicated Internship: instruments for micro-characterization. (max. 50 words) Mathematical modeling and Phyton programming to simulate processing and optimize molding parameters to avoid porosities and geometrical distortions.

Required Skills for the Knowledge of composite materials. C++ or Phyton programming skills. Internship: (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Eduardo-Antonio-Julian RUIZ Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/ruiz-edu

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Control of a Convertible Drone (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: The Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory of Polytechnique Montréal (max. 100 words) is specialized in drone development and applications. The intern will join the team in charge of developing a convertible drone that can fly as an aircraft or as an helicopter.

Tasks during the - Design control loops according various techniques. Internship: - Validate the controllers in the simulation environment. (max. 50 words) - Implement the controllers on the drone.

Required Skills for the - Good knowledge in mechanics/robotics Internship: - Good skills in Matlab/Simulink (max. 50 words) - Medium knowledge in control (PID control loop, root locus, pole placement)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: David SAUSSIÉ Title: Associate Professor

Department: Electrical Engineering Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/saussie-david

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the - Develop a simulation environment in ROS (Robot Operating System) and Gazebo. Internship: - Design control loops according various techniques. (max. 50 words) - Validate the controllers in the simulation environment.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: David SAUSSIÉ Title: Associate Professor

Department: Electrical Engineering Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/saussie-david

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Additive Manufacturing of 3D Printing of Multi-material Composite Systems (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: Additive manufacturing, or three-dimensional (3D) printing, of composites is a (max. 100 words) grouping of different shaping processes that allows the fabrication of structures through robotic deposition of material by means of a computer model. This technology is a very promising avenue for the implementation of many mechanical and aerospace systems. My research team focuses on the development of advanced composite materials offering multiple functionalities (where multiple properties are desired for a given application) for additive manufacturing (e.g., FDM, SLA, solvant assisted, extrusion-based). My research team innovates with freeform, multi-material and multi-functional printing of complex mechanical/aerospace systems. Tasks during the The intern will assist a senior graduate student (MS or PhD) with the realization of his Internship: or her research project. The main tasks are: design of composites, mixing of fillers, (max. 50 words) characterization of various material properties, tailoring of printing parameters, design of experiments, CAD design, robot programming, and 3D printing.

Required Skills for the • Strong Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering or Material Sciences background Internship: • Interest for applied research, 3D printing technologies, CAD, robot programming (max. 50 words) • Interest for material characterization (e.g., optical microscopy, SEM, mechanical) • Good team worker with good communication skills

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Daniel THERRIAULT Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: http://www.polymtl.ca/lm2/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the - Modelling and optim. of the TSA actuation system and the driven artificial finger Internship: - Fabrication of prototypes (3d printing and/or laser cutting) (max. 50 words) - Experimentations

Required Skills for the - Familiarity with Matlab and at least one CAD software (Inventor or Catia preferred) Internship: - Minimal knowledge in robotics and mechatronics (max. 50 words) - Kinematics and statics of mechanisms - Fabrication

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Lionel BIRGLEN Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: http://www.polymtl.ca/labrobot/en/

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The student will perform microfabrication, electrochemical polymerization as well as Internship: of electrochemical measurements (electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic (max. 50 words) voltammeter, scanning ion conductance microscopy).

Required Skills for the Motivation to work in a multidisciplinary field. Background in chemistry, chemical Internship: engineering, physics, biomedical engineering or biology. (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Fabio CICOIRA Title: Associate Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: http://www.polymtl.ca/iontronics/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The student will perform microfabrication, synthesis of self healing conducting Internship: polymers, electrical and electrochemical measurements (electrochemical impedance (max. 50 words) spectroscopy, cyclic voltammeter, scanning ion conductance microscopy).

Required Skills for the Motivation to work in a multidisciplinary field. Background in chemistry, chemical Internship: engineering, physics or mechanical engineering. (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Fabio CICOIRA Title: Associate Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: http://www.polymtl.ca/iontronics/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The student will perform synthesis of proteins, electrical and electrochemical Internship: measurements (electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic voltammeter, (max. 50 words) scanning ion conductance microscopy) as well as microfabrication.

Required Skills for the Motivation to work in a multidisciplinary field. Background in chemistry, chemical Internship: engineering, biomedical engineering or engineering physics. (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name: Laboratory of Prof. Noémie Dorval

Address: McGill, Chemical Engineering Department

Supervisor: Name: Fabio CICOIRA Title: Associate Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: http://www.polymtl.ca/iontronics/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the - Literature review - bactericidal effect of AgCu NPs and super-hydrophobic surfaces Internship: - Interaction of bacteria with polymeric surfaces (max. 50 words) - Analysis of bacteria resistance - Mechanism of action

Required Skills for the - write scientific manuscripts Internship: *** manipulation of bacteria culture (max. 50 words) - critical analysis - hability to follow protocols

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: L'Hocine YAHIA Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/liab/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Develop a mathematical model for the spine Internship: (max. 50 words)

Required Skills for the Thermodynamics, maths. Internship: Person with leadership and team player skills, autonomous, motivated and with good (max. 50 words) communications.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: L'Hocine YAHIA Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/liab/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Management, protection and exploitation of intellectual property assets. Internship: Develop a methodology of validation and approval. (max. 50 words) Write a patent or an application for homologation.

Required Skills for the Ability to analyze and synthesize, rigor and precision. Internship: Assets: Knowledge of regulation and standards (max. 50 words) Person with leadership and team player skills, autonomous, motivated and with good communications.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: L'Hocine YAHIA Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/liab/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Design a toothbrush life cycle (methodology, solution, equipment) Internship: Develop a preliminary work flow. (max. 50 words) Optimize the process.

Required Skills for the 3D printing, Work flow processes, device life cycle. Internship: Person with leadership and team player skills, autonomous, motivated and with good (max. 50 words) communications.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: L'Hocine YAHIA Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/liab/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Mechanism of action Internship: Methodology, solution, equipment (max. 50 words)

Required Skills for the 3D printing, polymers knowledge. Anatomy and Physiology of conjonctive tissues. Internship: Detail oriented, active learner. (max. 50 words) Person with leadership and team player skills, autonomous, motivated and with good communications.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: L'Hocine YAHIA Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/liab/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Develop a working methodology Internship: Develop a preliminary formulation (max. 50 words) Optimization.

Required Skills for the Microbiology, Polymers, 3D printing knowledge. Internship: Person with leadership and team player skills, autonomous, motivated and with good (max. 50 words) communications, creativity, positive thinking.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: L'Hocine YAHIA Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/liab/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Develop a preliminary chemical antibacterial formulation (methodology, solution, Internship: equipment) (max. 50 words) Optimize the formulation

Required Skills for the Chemical knowledge of gel preparation, microbiology Internship: Detail oriented (max. 50 words) Person with leadership and team player skills, autonomous, motivated and with good communications.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: L'Hocine YAHIA Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/liab/en

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The main duties during the internship will be to be part of the daily work at the lab Internship: and conduct the necessary analysis using the proper equipment. Additionally, the (max. 50 words) assistance to develop and operate small-scale process will be required.

Required Skills for the The student should have a solid knowledge in chemistry (preferably in polymers or Internship: organic chemistry) and industrial processes. Since is a international research (max. 50 words) laboratory our main communication language is English and thus a minimum level is required in order to be able to work. Laboratory experience and independence.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Greogry S. PATIENCE Title: Full Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/patience-gregory-scott

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Fischer Tropsch Catalyst Design for Fluidized Bed Reactor (Micro Refinery Unit) (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: Main Purpose is to manufacture the most suitable catalyst for Fischer Tropsch (max. 100 words) reaction on a large scale. Micro Refinery Unit to be built consist of two consecutive parts: CPOX and Fischer Tropsch reaction. We will use the syngas produced from natural gas in the first reactor by catalytic partial oxidation. At this stage primary focus will be catalyst synthesis and characterization. As an intern, you will perform experiments for producing and characterizing the catalyst with most effective features for our operating conditions. Since we will run the reactor with produced catalyst for the next stage, it should work in high temperature and pressure, should be stable and active for long time and it should not cause coking or attrition.

Tasks during the * Carry on variable experiments to synthesise the catalyst which can work high Internship: temperature and pressure (max. 50 words) * Characterization and analyzing the results of the produced catalyst. * Running the experiment on large scale * S/he will be part of integrating the first reactor into second one in MRU

Required Skills for the - Disciplined, hard worker, Internship: - Eager to learn and research (max. 50 words) - Problem solver - Good communication skills and team work

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Gregory S. PATIENCE Title: Full Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/patience-gregory-scott

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Catalytic Depolymerization of PMMA in an Extruder (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is a kind of important thermoplastic material in (max. 100 words) many fields. The solid stability of PMMA under common natural environment prevents it from being depolymerized naturally. In order to achieve the disposal and simultaneously recycling of waste PMMA, the high-efficient PMMA depolymerization technology needs to be developed. A good idea is to integrate a catalytic depolymerization reaction into an extruder to achieve the high-performance PMMA depolymerization and the simultaneous disposal of recycling residues. The ultimate goal for this project is to achieve the recycling of end-of-life PMMA materials in an extruder and the production of value-added chemicals from waste PMMA.

Tasks during the 1. Scale up the extrusion process; Internship: 2. Optimize the operating conditions of PMMA depolymerization in an extruder: e.g. (max. 50 words) temperature, catalyst feed rate, residence time, recycling rate;

Required Skills for the 1. Research and Analysis Internship: 2. Critical Thinking (max. 50 words) 3. Collaboration 4. Communication skill

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Gregory S. PATIENCE Title: Full Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/patience-gregory-scott

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The intern will run experiments on a pilot scale fluid bed reactor, carry out Internship: hydrodynamics tests and analysis the obtained products. (max. 50 words)

Required Skills for the - Problem solving and decision making Internship: - Goal oriented (max. 50 words) - Teamworking

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name: Marlon Bindes

Address: Principle Building, B-657

Supervisor: Name: Gregory S. PATIENCE

Title: Full Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/patience-gregory-scott

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The intern student will be involved in the works on studies of activity of catalysts, Internship: reaction kinetics which will carry out using lab scale reactor, as well as process (max. 50 words) simulation and analysis of results.

Required Skills for the - Problem solving and decision making Internship: - Goal oriented (max. 50 words) - Teamworking

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Gregory S. PATIENCE Title: Full Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/patience-gregory-scott

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Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Micro Refinery Unit, GTL (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: We will produce syngas from natural gas by catalytic partial oxidation (max. 100 words) (CPOX) of methane in big scale reformet unit. This reaction is not currently in use industrially due to the fact that there is not a technology that allows to operate in an economic convenient way. You will carry on experiments at high pressure in a pilot plant to study the features of the catalyst, study the effects of the feeding temperature on the overall reaction, understand if an alternative way to feed the reactants may effect the carbon deposition on the catalyst and define an optimized coking-regeneration procedure.

Tasks during the The intern will run experiment on the design lab scale plant, from the preparation of Internship: the reactor until the analysis of the product. At the same time he/she will design the (max. 50 words) integrate a new reactor for a second reaction.

Required Skills for the - Problem solving and decision making Internship: - Goal oriented (max. 50 words) - Teamworking

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Gregory S. PATIENCE Title: Full Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/patience-gregory-scott

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Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Photochemical Surface Engineering of Nanomaterials (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: Often, we need the surface of a material to serve a different function from what its (max. 100 words) native properties allow. In that case, we must engineer the surface to meet the needs of a given process. Photo-initiated chemical vapour deposition (PICVD) shows promise as a scalable process to facilitate surface engineering. Work at Polytechnique Montreal's PhotoSEL (photochemical surface engineering laboratory) has focused lately on adapting this method at near atmospheric pressure and under mild conditions to tailor the surface properties of metal surfaces, polymer substrates and nanoparticles of various types at both small and large scales. This internship would aim to modify powders, nanoparticles and nanostructured surfaces finding use in 3D printing, transportation and water harvesting. Tasks during the Plan and execute experiments, analyze experimental results, construct/adapt Internship: reactors, write progress reports, present results orally. (max. 50 words)

Required Skills for the Reactor engineering (a must), photochemistry (or a desire to learn), nanomaterials Internship: (or willingness to learn), chemical analysis (basics) (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Jason Robert TAVARES Title: Associate Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Website: http://www.jasontavares.ca

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Winter Research Internship Scholarship Program

Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Effect of Climate Change on the Reclamation of Mine Sites (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: Mine wastes often contain sulfides which can generate acid mine drainage (AMD), (max. 100 words) characterized by low pH and high concentrations of sulfates and metals. Reclamation of reactive waste disposal sites are usually based on oxygen barrier covers which are very sensitive to in situ water balance. However, climate models predict an intensification of droughts during summer periods by 2100 in some mining regions of Canada. Longer and more intense drought periods could reduce the performance of reclamation. The objective of this project is therefore to assess the effect of climate change and propose solutions to improve the sustainability of reclaimed mine sites. This project is part of a large research program at the Research Institute on Mines and Environment (RIME) UQAT-Polytechnique. Tasks during the Characterization of hydrogeological, geotechnical and geochemical properties of Internship: different mine wastes. Physical model (medium scale) experiments in the laboratory. (max. 50 words) Initiation to numerical modelling. Support to Master's and PhD students. Collaboration with climatologists.

Required Skills for the Basic knowledge in hydrogeology and/or geochemistry. Depending on the student’s Internship: background and interests, the internship may focus on laboratory experiments (max. 50 words) and/or numerical simulations. Therefore, some experience in the lab or with numerical models could be useful.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Thomas PABST Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering

Website: http://www.irme.ca/en/

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Winter Research Internship Scholarship Program

Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Integrated Mine Waste Management to Prevent Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: One of the most critical issues for the mining industry remains the management and (max. 100 words) safe disposal of the important quantities of solid wastes (mine tailings and waste rock) produced during extraction. These materials often contain sulfides which can oxidize upon contact with oxygen (air) and water, producing acidic effluent with high concentrations of sulfates and heavy metals (known as acid mine drainage, AMD). Reclamation of reactive waste disposal sites is best achieved when it is planned in advance and integrated into the mining production cycle. Integrated mine waste management is therefore at the core of the research carried out at the Research Institute on Mines and Environment (RIME) UQAT-Polytechnique.

Tasks during the Characterization of hydrogeological, geotechnical and geochemical properties of Internship: different mine wastes. Physical model (medium scale) experiments in the laboratory. (max. 50 words) Support to Master's and PhD students. Initiation to numerical modelling.

Required Skills for the Basic knowledge in hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering and/or geochemistry. Internship: Depending on the student’s background and interests, the internship may focus on (max. 50 words) co-disposal of mine tailings and waste rocks in open pits, valorization of waste rocks in roads, dams and cover systems, and/or effects of climate change on mine sites.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Thomas PABST Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering

Website: http://www.irme.ca/en/

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Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Scale Effects on Hydrogeotechnical Properties of Coarse Waste Rock (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: Waste rock can contain particles which size ranges from clay size grains to meter (max. 100 words) wide boulders. The characterization of the hydrogeotechnical properties of such material is therefore very complex. Laboratory tests usually require sieving the material which can modify its properties. To better evaluate the properties of coarse grained materials in the field, new relations between mechanical properties and maximum grain size need to be established and validated. In this project, new and relatively unique geotechnical equipment recently acquired by the Research Institute on Mines and Environment (RIME) UQAT-Polytechnique will be used. Large scale triaxial and shear tests will be carried out on various fractions of waste rock and compared to properties measured in the field. Tasks during the Characterization of hydrogeological and geotechnical properties of coarse waste Internship: rock. Large scale triaxial (30 cm diameter) and shear box (30 cm diameter, 15 cm (max. 50 words) height) tests in the RIME-laboratory at Polytechnique. Possibly field work on mine sites. Support to Master's and PhD students. Initiation to numerical modelling.

Required Skills for the Basic knowledge in geotechnical engineering and hydrogeology. Some laboratory or Internship: field experience could be useful. Depending on the student’s background and (max. 50 words) interests, the internship may focus on the use of coarse waste rocks in roads, dams and/or drainage systems.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Thomas PABST Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering

Website: http://www.irme.ca/en/

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Contributing to (1) the parallelization of an existing mesh-free fluid simulation code Internship: on either parallel CPUs (using MPI programing library) or GPUs (using CUDA-C library) (max. 50 words) and (2) simulation and study of example hydro-environmental fluid problems

Required Skills for the Required: Basic knowledge of shared/distributed memory parallel programing, and Internship: familiarity with C++ language, and CUDA-C and/or MPI libraries. (max. 50 words) Desired (NOT mandatory): Knowledge of the numerical methods and computational fluid dynamics

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Ahmad SHAKIBAEINIA Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering

Website: http://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/shakibaeinia-ahmad

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer.Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The project basically consists of empirical studies on "real" data-intensive web Internship: installations. Our lab has significant expertise in such studies as well as the necessary (max. 50 words) tools and infrastructure. To get up to speed, the project will start with a survey of books and blog posts on data-intensive web applications and release strategies.

Required Skills for the The student needs the motivation to quickly dive through source code, data and Internship: documentation to understand the major components and dependencies of a (max. 50 words) data-intensive system. The student should be familiar with typical scripting languages and should have the desire to learn R to statistically analyze and visualize data.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Bram ADAMS Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Software Engineering

Website: http://mcis.polymtl.ca/index.html

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The project requires the evaluation of progressively more refined robot Internship: controllers (including features such as connectivity, collision (max. 50 words) avoidance, etc.). These test phases will include both simulations and field-experiments. The intern will be tasked with setting-up and carrying the simulations/experiments, as well as data collection.

Required Skills for the Required: C/C++, sh/bash, Python, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian), MATLAB Internship: Preferred: experience with simple microcontroller kits (e.g. Arduino), (max. 50 words) ROS, Git Desired: experience with robotics simulators (ARGoS, Gazebo), experience with DJI/3DR drones, wheeled robots (kheperas, footbots), Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Giovanni BELTRAME Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Software Engineering

Website: http://mistlab.ca

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Swarm Programming for Tiny Robots (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: Swarm robotics is a discipline that studies fully decentralized (max. 100 words) approaches for the coordination of large-scale teams of robots (swarms). Research in this field is ambitious: robot swarms are envisioned for scenarios for which solutions are today impractical, too dangerous, or non-existent. From drones to self-driving cars, robot swarms are becoming pervasive, and are used in many kinds of applications. Examples of swarm robotic applications are search and rescue operations, industrial and agricultural inspection, space exploration, and surgical activities.

Tasks during the The intern will learn to use the Buzz Virtual Machine developed in Dr. Internship: Beltrame laboratory and deploy it on small wheeled robots and indoor (max. 50 words) flying robots available in the laboratory. The resulting hardware and software combination will be tested with coordinated swarm behaviors.

Required Skills for the Required: C/C++, sh/bash, Python, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) Internship: Preferred: experience with cross-compilation tools (arm, atmega) (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Giovanni BELTRAME Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Software Engineering

Website: http://mistlab.ca

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The intern will use a robotic simulator as well as the robots in Dr. Internship: Beltrame's lab to devise new strategies for debugging robotic swarms. (max. 50 words) Information overlays, per robot printing, use of AI to detect anomalous behaviors are possibilities that will be explored with the intern.

Required Skills for the Required: C/C++, sh/bash, Python, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) Internship: Preferred: experience with simulators and ROS (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Giovanni BELTRAME Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Software Engineering

Website: http://mistlab.ca

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The project includes several algorithms, implementing interacting Internship: features, running on a heterogeneous robotic system. In this context, (max. 50 words) software engineering becomes crucial. The intern will be asked to assess the status of the code repositories and recommend/implement a strategy for its (re-)factoring and maintenance.

Required Skills for the Required: C/C++, sh/bash, Python, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian), MATLAB Internship: Preferred: experience with simple microcontroller kits (e.g. Arduino), (max. 50 words) ROS, Git Desired: experience with mid-/large-scale projects in OO languages, UML Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Giovanni BELTRAME Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Software Engineering

Website: http://mistlab.ca

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Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Human-Multi-Robot Interfaces (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: The aim of this project is to develop the software infrastructure (max. 100 words) needed for one (or more) human(s) and a swarm of robots to collaborate in the exploration of hardly accessible planetary environments. For example, we envision that an astronaut shall be able to explore a lava tube on the moon aided by a swarm of small size robots controlled through an audio-visual interface. As the robots advance, they shall place themselves so that network connectivity is guaranteed. The overall goal is to increase the performance as well as the safety of the humans involved in the exploration.

Tasks during the The project includes the design of a user interface (e.g. a GUI) to Internship: control a robot swarm. Such a complex, dynamic system presents (max. 50 words) many challenges for the development of smooth UX. The intern will be required to propose, design, and implement features for this novel UI.

Required Skills for the Required: C/C++, sh/bash, Python, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian), MATLAB Internship: Preferred: experience with simple microcontroller kits (e.g. Arduino), (max. 50 words) ROS, Git Desired: Android and/or iOS development, Qt, (Cocoa), experience with VR/AR (Kinect 2.0, Leap Motion, etc.) Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

Address:

Supervisor: Name: Giovanni BELTRAME Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Software Engineering

Website: http://mistlab.ca

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the The intern will deploy Robot Operating System (ROS) algorithms on a Internship: UAV fleet and a rover for long-term automation. Specifically, the intern (max. 50 words) will be tasked with the integration and testing of a landing controller for a UAV aiming at a moving rover fitted with a recharging platform.

Required Skills for the Required: C/C++, sh/bash, Python, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) Internship: Preferred: experience with ROS (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Giovanni BELTRAME Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Software Engineering

Website: http://mistlab.ca

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Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Flexible real-time systems for closed-loop stimulation in neuroscientific research (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: When short sounds are presented at specific phases of ongoing brain (max. 100 words) activity during sleep, learning is enhanced (Ngo et al., Neuron, 2013). Subsequent work demonstrated that the phenomenon could be useful as a therapeutic intervention to improve sleep quality, increase learning, and as a research tool to investigate mechanisms of human memory. However, it is technically challenging to process electrophysiological signals and return auditory stimulation with high temporal precision. Existing systems that are able to do so are expensive and large, or are too inflexible for research use. This project involves developing an inexpensive, FPGA-based solution to support neuroscientific studies.

Tasks during the Working closely with real-time experts and with neuroscientists, the Internship: successful candidate will develop and test a closed-loop system that (max. 50 words) takes electrophysiological data as an input and plays sound files during specific phases of brain oscillations up to 20 Hz.

Required Skills for the The candidate must have knowledge of real-time systems, signal Internship: processing, ability to build prototypes. He or she must be organized, (max. 50 words) and able to work in an interdisciplinary team.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Giovanni BELTRAME Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Software Engineering

Website: http://mistlab.ca

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Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Supporting Early-stage User-centered Design with Machine Learning Technologies (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: User-centered design is a widely adopted methodology to create interactive software (max. 100 words) systems. During its early stage, designers create and access a large number of design artifacts to ideate and communicate with users and other stakeholders. Two types of artifacts are frequently used: (1) sketches of rough design concepts and (2) examples representing analogical design ideas. With little tool support, however, designers are usually frustrated when managing the huge collection of design artifacts. This research project aims to resolve this issue by leveraging recent machine learning technologies to help interaction designers organize, reuse, and retrieve design knowledge from these artifacts.

Tasks during the - Qualitative and quantitative analysis of data about design artifacts Internship: - Develop machine learning techniques to identify design elements and their (max. 50 words) relationships in design artifacts - Empirically evaluate the techniques (potentially with user studies)

Required Skills for the - Knowledge about machine learning, image processing, and/or user-centered Internship: interaction design (max. 50 words) - Programming skills (Python, JavaScript, HTML and CSS)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Jinghui CHENG Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Computer and Software Engineering

Website: http://jhcheng.me

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Programming IoT devices in Phyton and C++. Sensor data acquisition, TPCIP comm, Internship: NoSQL database and cloud computing. (max. 50 words)

Required Skills for the Advanced knowledge on object oriented programming C++ and Phyton. Good Internship: programming skills and experienced with IoT devices. (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Eduardo A. J. RUIZ Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: http://a2c2.meca.polymtl.ca/

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Acquire a solid understanding of how JuMP stores the computational graphs Internship: associated to a problem and how they can be accessed and examined. Based on prior (max. 50 words) work using other modeling languages, implement automatic discovery rules, including convexity, linearity, quadraticity, etc.

Required Skills for the Excellent programming skills and fluency in the Julia language are required. An Internship: understanding of computational graphs and optimization help but are not required. (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Dominique ORBAN Title: Associate Professor

Department: Mathematics and Industrial Engineering

Website: https://dpo.github.io/

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Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Automatic Detection of Partially-Separable Structure (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: In practice, the objective and constraints of optimization problems are often partially (max. 100 words) separable, i.e., compositions of simpler functions that only depend on a small subset of variables. Exploiting such structure improves efficiency, both in gradient-based and derivative-free solvers. Modeling languages translate the description of objective functions and constraints to computational graphs for purposes of efficient evaluation and differentiation. The modeler does not typically specify the partially-separable structure. By walking the computational graph of a function, we may detect it automatically and transmit it to solvers. In this project, we will work with the Julia programming language (julialang.org) and the JuMP modeling language for optimization (juliaopt.org). Tasks during the Acquire a solid understanding of how JuMP stores the computational graphs Internship: associated to a problem and how they can be accessed and examined. Based on prior (max. 50 words) work using other modeling languages, implement automatic detection of partially-separable structure in computational graphs.

Required Skills for the Excellent programming skills and fluency in the Julia language are required. An Internship: understanding of computational graphs is recommended. Proficiency in optimization (max. 50 words) helps but is not required.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Dominique ORBAN Title: Associate Professor

Department: Mathematics and Industrial Engineering

Website: https://dpo.github.io/

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Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Efficient Solution of Ill-Posed Optimization Problems (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: Certain optimization problems in economics have numerous redundant constraints, (max. 100 words) which causes typical solvers to run into numerical difficulties. The recent NCL solver, tailored to a specific tax problem, combines the AMPL modeling language and either the IPOPT or KNITRO solvers, works around such difficulties but is currently a serial code. The first part of this internship consists in arranging so NCL can exploit multi-core architectures and solve larger problems. The second part of this internship consists in implementing a robust general-purpose NCL that is not limited to the tax problem. The latter will be done using the Julia programming language (julialang.org) and the optimization infrastructure developed in my research group.

Tasks during the Acquire an understanding of the NCL algorithm and its relation to the classical Internship: augmented Lagrangian algorithm. Arrange for AMPL to instruct IPOPT and KNITRO to (max. 50 words) take advantage of multiple cores. Develop a Julia version of NCL based on IPOPT or KNITRO and benchmark it on large collections of problems.

Required Skills for the Intermediate knowledge of constrained optimization and in particular the Internship: augmented Lagrangian algorithm. Basic knowledge of AMPL helps but is not (max. 50 words) necessary. Good knowledge of the Julia language is recommended. Solid computer proficiency (Linux or macOS) is required.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Dominique ORBAN Title: Associate Professor

Department: Mathematics and Industrial Engineering

Website: https://dpo.github.io/

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Tasks during the Acquire an understanding of the structure of the GALAHAD library and how to install Internship: it. Develop ISO_C_BINDINGS interfaces to one or several module and implement a (max. 50 words) Julia interface to those modules.

Required Skills for the Solid knowledge of modern dialects of Fortran. General computer proficiency (Linux Internship: or macOS) is required. (max. 50 words)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Dominique ORBAN Title: Associate Professor

Department: Mathematics and Industrial Engineering

Website: https://dpo.github.io/

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Tasks during the - Analytical modelling of the linkage Internship: - Numerical optimisation (max. 50 words) - Production of a CAD model and drawings - Fabrication of a prototype and experimentations

Required Skills for the - Solid mechanics, Robotics and Mechatronics Internship: - Skilled with Matlab and 3D modeling experience (Inventor or Catia preferred) (max. 50 words) - Basic programming skills (Arduino) might be useful - Rapid prototyping familiarity (3D printing & laser cutting)

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Lionel BIRGLEN Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: http://www.polymtl.ca/labrobot/en/

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2019 Summer Research Internship Scholarship Program

Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Optimisation, Fabrication and Test of an Adaptable Vice-grip (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: The aim of the project is to create a clamping device working with a principle similar (max. 100 words) to vice-grips but built from a single piece of material (no assembly required). This device will be shape adaptive, ie. it will mechanically adapt to the shape of the object to be grasped without relying on sensors. It will consist of a pair of fingers as well as a handle through which a user could control the device (think scissors). To minimize cost and complexity, this grasping tool will rely on flexural hinges and be lasercut from a single sheet of material (or 3D printed). That technique will also allow for a very compact design compatible with the targeted application, namely a surgical grasper. A schematic of the tool will be provided but its actual geometry needs to be established by optimization Tasks during the - Modelling of the mechanism Internship: - Numerical Optimization (max. 50 words) - Fabrication of prototypes (3d printing and/or laser cutting) - Experimentations

Required Skills for the - Familiarity with Matlab and at least one CAD software (Inventor or Catia preferred) Internship: - Solid mechanics, Mechanics of materials (experience with Ansys would be useful) (max. 50 words) - Kinematics and statics - Fabrication

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: Lionel BIRGLEN Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: http://www.polymtl.ca/labrobot/en/

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Area of Expertise : ☐ Aerospace ☐ Biomedical ☐ Chemical ☐ Civil, Geological, Mining ☐ Computer/Software ☐ Electrical ☐ Mathematics/Industrial ☐ Mechanical ☐ Physics Research Project Title : Experimental Study of the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Granular Beds (max. 10 words) University Cycle : ☐ 1st cycle (Undergraduate) ☐2nd cycle (Master) ☐3rd cycle (Ph.D.) Background Information: Over the last decades, advanced composites have experienced a steady growth in (max. 100 words) several major industries such as aerospace, ground transportation and civil engineering. However, as composite parts are getting much larger and more complex, manufacturing costs rapidly become prohibitive. To open up new applications of high performance composites, it is necessary to reduce these costs. The proposed project is part of a larger research program investigating the potential of new adaptive tools with the capability of changing the shape of mold skins. The thermal conductivity of the new material used in this innovative tooling concept will be measured in the laboratory to validate a predictive software based on the Discrete Element Method (DEM) developed at Polytechnique Montreal. Tasks during the The following activities will be undertaken over a period of 4 months: 1) Literature Internship: review and laboratory training (1 month); 2) Effective thermal conductivity (max. 50 words) measurements and analysis (1.5 month); 3) Comparison of experimental results with numerical simulations (1 month); 4) Final report redaction (0.5 month).

Required Skills for the 1) Basic scientific training in Mechanical and/or Materials Engineering; 2) Experience Internship: in laboratory would be appreciated; 3) Basic knowledge in programming is an asset, (max. 50 words) but not mandatory; 4) Teamwork capability is expected; 5) Either English or French can be used during the internship.

Location: ☐ Polytechnique’s Building (Main, Lassonde, Bombardier, Aisenstadt) ☐ Others, please specify: Name:

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Supervisor: Name: François TROCHU Title: Full Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Website: https://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/trochu-francois

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