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DESCRIPTION:This year's seminar will have keynote speaker Chris Stern\, CEO
  and Co Founder at CarbiCrete followed by a Cleantech Pitch Competition.\n
 \nRegister here!\n\nCarbiCrete聽is a Montreal-based carbon removal technolo
 gy company that has created a cement-free\, carbon negative process for ma
 king pre-cast concrete using industrial waste by-products from the steel-m
 aking industry.聽The patented technology stems from 黑料不打烊 Civil Engineerin
 g Professor Yixin Shao and his post-doc researcher at the time Dr. Mehrdad
  Mahoutian\, CTO and co-founder of CarbiCrete. The R&D team received early
 -stage funding via the聽William and Rhea Seath Award in Engineering Innovat
 ion聽from the 黑料不打烊 Engine Centre. In addition to CarbiCrete\, Chris serve
 s as an Advisor and Director to several Cleantech companies in the US and 
 Canada\, including EnergyPal\, a North American residential solar provider
 .\n\nBefore founding聽CarbiCrete\, Chris was a Co-Founder and Director at P
 ure Energies Group\, a residential solar customer acquisition company whic
 h was acquired by NRG Energy in 2014. Chris received his B. Eng. in Mechan
 ical Engineering from 黑料不打烊 University.\n\nAbout the John D. Thompson Ent
 repreneurial Development Seminar\n	This series was created to inspire Facul
 ty of Engineering students to think about entrepreneurship and to think li
 ke an entrepreneur\, whether they go on to start their own company in the 
 future or be part of start-up or small/medium enterprise\, or a large firm
 . In addition\, we want to grow the entrepreneurial culture and spirit acr
 oss the university.\n\n\nCleantech Idea Finalists\n\n\n	Bio-HydroReactor\n
 \n	Andres Gonzalez Reina聽(Bioengineering\, undergrad) and聽Toufic Jrab (Bioe
 ngineering\, undergrad)\n\n	Proposed solution: Mimicking and improving on t
 he current prototype of a double-chamber microbial electrolysis cell syste
 m of biohydrogen production. Specifically\, this idea of microbial electro
 lysis cell system will be incorporated into the proposed design project of
  a bioreactor\; the bioreactor takes farm waste as an input toward dark fe
 rmentation\, a process that yields acetic acid and few molecular hydrogen 
 gas which will be transported to be stored in a compressed gas chamber.\n
 \n	\n	GreenTrack\n\n	Benjamin P茅rez (Bioengineering\, undergrad)\, Chu Ying C
 ao (Bioengineering\, undergrad) and聽Michael Asseraf聽(Bioengineering\, unde
 rgrad)\n\n	Quantifying the environmental effects of a company is extremely 
 hard and remains largely an untapped opportunity. Our idea is a non-profit
  data platform that tracks the environmental impact of products throughout
  their value chain. The algorithm will track several metrics such as water
  consumption\, carbon emission\, land use\, plastic usage\, electricity\, 
 use of non-renewable resources\, etc. to output a specific sustainability 
 score range.\n\n	\n	Ikei\n\n	Gabriele Capilli (Mining and Materials Engineeri
 ng\, Postdoctoral Fellow) and聽Minh Tran (Electrical and Computer Engineeri
 ng\, PhD candidate)\n\n	Ikei aims to provide a low-cost\, high-precision nu
 trient monitoring system for more efficient use of water and nutrients in 
 hydroponic agriculture\, and reduction of waste-water release. Typically\,
  after multiple growth cycles\, the nutrients in a hydroponic system becom
 e imbalanced\, forcing growers to flush their system to prepare a new wate
 r culture. By monitoring the system鈥檚 nutrient content\, nutrient water ca
 n be recycled through rebalancing\, reducing costs and reducing waste.\n\n
 	\n	Maneico\n\n	Charlotte Volk (Bioengineering\, undergrad) and Emma Wong (Bi
 oengineering\, undergrad)\n\n	Natural\, eco-friendly mosquito repellent usi
 ng mangrove leaf extract that targets disease-carrying mosquitoes in Ghana
 . Red mangrove extract is repellent and larvicidal against the main diseas
 e-carrying mosquitoes present in Ghana\, including those that carry yellow
  fever\, malaria\, and filarial disease. Research has shown that red mangr
 ove leaf extract is as effective as DEET against mosquitoes and sandflies 
 while being nontoxic and derived from natural ingredients.\n\n	\n	Quantus\n
 \n	Kirk H. Bevan (Department of Mining and Materials Engineering)\, Yee Wei
  Foong (Department of Mining and Materials Engineering\, PhD candidate) an
 d Prof. Philippe Ouzilleau (Department of Mining and Materials Engineering
 \, Postdoctoral Fellow)聽\n\n	The research project is to design an energy st
 orage device via new mechanism that can store as much energy as batteries 
 but charge 2-10 times faster. Supercapacitors store more energy than doubl
 e layer capacitors through redox reactions. Ideally\, these redox reaction
 s should allow multiple Faradaic electron transfers that overlap to form a
  near rectangular voltammetry profile to mimic double layer capacitance 鈥� 
 hence the name 鈥減seudocapacitance鈥�.\n\n
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SUMMARY:9th Annual John D. Thompson Entrepreneurial Development Seminar   
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