Program
| ENG 103 (Auditorium) – Thursday | ||
| Health and Well Being – I (ENG103, Thursday 10.00 AM – 12.00 PM) | ||
| 10.00-10.20 | Towards a Low-cost Point-of-Care Screening Platform for Electronic Auscultation of Vital Body Sounds | Uzair Mayat; Fayez Qureshi; Saad Ahmed; Yashodhan Athavale; Sridhar Krishnan |
| 10.20-10.40 | Technology for Continuous Long-term Monitoring of Pregnant Women for Safe Childbirth | George Endo; Ibukun Oluwayomi; Victor Alexandru; Yashodhan Athavale; Sridhar Krishnan |
| 10.40-11.00 | Technological Aspects of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation | Mariana C. Melo; Dhainner R Macedo; Sridhar Krishnan; Alcimar Soares |
| 11.00-11.20 | An Integrated Biosignals Wearable System for Low-Cost Blood Pressure Monitoring | Toka Alnaser; Amnyah Almahouzi; Susanne Tiraei; Yashodhan Athavale; Sridhar Krishnan |
| 11.20-11.40 | A Hybrid Wavelet Based K-Means Clustering Approach to Detect Intracranial Hypertension | Parisa Naraei; Matyas Kenez; Alireza Sadeghian |
| 11.40-12.00 | Wireless Body Area Network Development for Remote Patient Health Observing | Abdul Salam Mahmood; Essa Jafer; Sattar Hussain; Xavier N. Fernando |
| Health and Well Being – II (ENG103, Thursday 2.00 PM – 3.20 PM) | ||
| 2.00-2.20 | Benefits of Automatic Human Action Recognition in an Assistive System for People with Dementia | Emilie Jean-Baptiste; Alex Mihailidis |
| 2.20-2.40 | Detection of Heart Abnormalities via Artificial Neural Network: An Application of Self Learning Algorithms | Maryam Rastgar-Jazi; Xavier N. Fernando; Vino Shan |
| 2.40-3.00 | Device Integration Framework E-Health | Elankayer Sithirasenan; Adee Macdowell; Jake Araullo |
| 3.00-3.20 | Boosting Physical and Psychological Well-Being in Rehabilitation Through Cognitive Technologies. Preliminary Results | Raffaella Folgieri; Claudio Lucchiari |
| Professional Presentations – I (ENG103, Thursday 3.40 PM – 5.00 PM) | ||
| 3.40-4.00 | Giving Back: Tikkun Olam Makers as an Example and Toronto as a Rich Medium to Implement It. | Maryam Abdullah |
| 4.00-4.20 | From Limited Resources to Innovation: youth are encouraged to use resources that are around them to further develop their ideas | Lukendo Mbokani Mparha |
| 4.20-4.40 | Estimating Road and House Density of Refugee Camps from Aerial Imaging | Hadi Jomaa and Marriette Awad |
| 4.40-5.00 | Developing a Public-Policy Approach to the use of Social media monitoring during Humanitarian crises | Agradip Dutta |
| ENG 103 (Auditorium) – Friday | ||
| Professional Presentations – II (ENG103, Friday 10.00 AM – 12.00 PM) | ||
| 10.00-10.30 | Virtual and Travelling Exhibitions on the History of Technology and Disability: Interdisciplinary Lessons of the Past for the Future (Plenary Talk) | Beth Robertson and Adrian Chan, Carleton Universty |
| 10.30-10.50 | Demonstration of a Wave-powered Desalienation System in Cape Verde | William Staby |
| 10.50-11.10 | Sustainably Energizing Impowerished Communities | Lisa Oelke and Tanya Deer |
| 11.10-11.30 | Directed Graph Optimization for Improving Fleet Management of Waste Water Removal in Refugee Camps | Hadi Jomaa and Marriette Awad |
| 11.30-11.50 | Towards Enabling Equitable Water Supply through Technology | M. S. Bhat |
| Energy, Climate and Sustainability – I (ENG103, Friday 2.00 PM – 3.20 PM) | ||
| 2.00-2.20 | Archimedes Screw Generators for Sustainable Energy Development | Scott Simmons; William Lubitz |
| 2.20-2.40 | A Comparative Assessment for Algal Biodiesel Production in the Philippines | Ivan Henderson Gue; Aristotle Ubando; Alvin Culaba; Joel Cuello |
| 2.40-3.00 | Maximizing the Energy Harvested from Piezoelectric Materials for Clean Energy Generation | Yasna Schifferli |
| 3.00-3.20 | Urban Sustainability Through Emerging Technologies | Bob Singh |
| 3.20-3.40 | Monitor, Control & Forecast onsite energy resources and loads to optimize facilities performance and maximize energy savings | Pratap Revuru |
| Energy, Climate and Sustainability – II (ENG103, Friday 3.40 PM – 5.00 PM) | ||
| 3.40-4.00 | Promoting access to grid electricity for communities by using energy efficient transformer components within the Clean Development Mechanism | Sizwe Dhlamini, Innocent Davidson and Zijun Gong |
| 4.00-4.20 | Microgrid Islanding and Grid Restoration with Off-the-Shelf Utility Protection Equipment | William Edwards, Jr.; Scott Manson; Jakov Vico |
| 4.20-4.40 | Solar-powered Drip-Irrigation for Rural Bangladesh | Dewan Ishtiaque Ahmed; Xavier N. Fernando |
| ENG 101 Thursday | ||
| Disaster Mitigation and Management (ENG101, Thursday 10.00 AM-12.00 PM) | ||
| 10.00-10.20 | Welcoming Syrian Refugees to Canada | Wendy Cukier; Samantha Jackson |
| 10.20-10.40 | Building with Straw in Post-Emergency Conditions: The Case of Haiti | Cottino Valeria; Carlo Ferraresi; Walter Franco; Annalisa Mosetto; Giuseppe Quaglia |
| 10.40-11.00 | A Practical System for Optimized Assignment of Shelters to Evacuees | Liang Zhao |
| 11.00-11.20 | Earthquake Disaster Management Analysis in Dhaka | Md Ahmed; Hiroshi Morita |
| 11.20-11.40 | Enhancing Autonomous Access Hole Detection | Ben Waismark; Alexander Ferworn; Jimmy Tran |
| 11.40-12.00 | Towards Determining Relative Densities for Common Unknown Explosives in Improvised Explosive Devices | Alexander Ferworn; Christopher Chan |
| Education and Humanitarian Technology – I (ENG101, Thursday 2.00-3.20 PM) | ||
| 2.00-2.20 | Intercultural Engineering Online: Getting Humanitarian Engineering on the Agenda | Joyce van de Vegte |
| 2.20-2.40 | Exploring Anthropogenic Activities and Management Decisions Using a Novel Environmental Agent Based Model | Devin Rose; Brandon P.M. Edwards; Ross Kett; Michael Yodzis; Justin Angevaare; Daniel Gillis |
| 2.40-3.00 | A Novel Method for Assessing Broadband State at K-12 Schools | Salam Ismaeel; Mirza Kamaludeen; Carm Scarfo; Soussan Tabari |
| 3.00-3.20 | The Education of Students About ISO/IEC 29110 Software Engineering Standards and Their Implementations in Very Small Entities | Claude Laporte; Mirna Muñoz; Bruel Gerançon |
| Education and Humanitarian Technology – II (ENG101, Thursday 3.40-5.00 PM) | ||
| 3.40-4.00 | Data-Driven Technique to Estimate the Required Broadband Speed for K-12 Schools | Mirza Kamaludeen; Salam Ismaeel; Franca Petrocelli; Chris Carrington; Carm Scarfo |
| 4.00-4.20 | A Low-cost Approach for Wide-spread Screening of Periodic Leg Movements Related to Sleep Disorders | Sharadha Kolappan |
| 4.20-4.40 | Proposal of an Educational Game for Improvement of Cognitive Performance of Intellectually Disabled People | Letícia Segatto; Gustavo da Silva; Mariana C. Melo |
| 4.40-5.00 | Project Education-based Applied Technologies for Poverty Alleviation, Ending Hunger, Achieving Food Security and Promoting Sustainable Ag | Reg Pecen; Alan Maclachlan; Nonhlanhla Joye |
| ENG 101 Friday | ||
| Information and Communication Technology for Humanity – I (ENG101 Friday 10.00 AM – 12.00 PM) | ||
| 10.00-10.20 | Secure and Cost-Effective Remote Monitoring Health-Guard System | Hussain Fatmi; Sattar Hussain; Ali Al-Rubaie |
| 10.20-10.40 | On D2D Communications for Public Safety Applications | Ali Alnoman; Alagan Anpalagan |
| 10.40-11.00 | Traffic Offloading Problem in Two-Tier Hetnets with D2D Support for Emergency Communication | Anirudh Ravichandran; Ali Alnoman; Nitin Sharna; Alagan Anpalagan |
| 11.00-11.20 | An Improved Differential Privacy Algorithm to Protect Re-identification of Data | A. N. K. Zaman; Charlie Obimbo; Rozita Dara |
| 11.20-11.40 | Wireless Energy Harvesting from Ambient Sources for Cognitive Networks in Rural Communities | Arif Obaid; Xavier N. Fernando |
| Information and Communication Technology for Humanity – II (ENG101, Friday, 2.00 PM – 3.20 PM) | ||
| 2.00-2.20 | Management Module Based on SNMP for a Warning Message Receiver Considering DTT and FM | Marco Aurelio Jara Quispe; Alejandro Jose Llanos Garcia; Ronald Chavez Rojas; Zoser Quenaya Hinojosa; Armando Zaga Ttito; Ivan Santos Leon Gavino |
| 2.20-2.40 | Ad-Hoc Messaging Infrastructure for P2P Communication in Disaster Management | Michael Lescisin; Qusay Mahmoud |
| 2.40-3.00 | Recommended Broadband Capacity Estimation System for School Boards | Mirza Kamaludeen; Salam Ismaeel; Carm Scarfo; Chris Carrington |
| 3.00-3.20 | Towards a Robust Rescue Network: Wireless Communication is the Choice | Sattar Hussain; Predrag Pesikan; Xavier N. Fernando |
| Diverse Topics in Humanity (ENG101, Friday, 3.40 PM – 5.00 PM) | ||
| 3.40-4.00 | A Virtual Marketplace for Goods and Services for People with Social Needs | Daniela Rosu; Dionne Aleman; J. Christopher Beck; Mark Chignell; Mariano Consens; Mark Fox; Michael Gruninger; Chang Liu; Yi Ru; Scott Sanner |
| 4.00-4.20 | Technologies in the Planning of Refugees’ Camps | Elie Daher; Sylvain Kubicki |
| 4.20-4.40 | A New Alarming System for an Underground Mining Environment Using Visible Light Communications | Hasan Farahneh; Fatima Hussain; Xavier N. Fernando |
| 4.40-5.00 | Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors for Smart Cities | SM Kamruzzaman; Xavier N. Fernando; Muhammad Jaseemuddin |