T.E.A.M.

Pipelines to Pot all in a week: From one of Canada's oldest industry to its newest (medical though). That's the way we roll in TEAM. Bonus bonus... TEAM studies making carbon fibre from bitumen, and the effects of climate change on Lake Ontario. And that's just the first half of a week in TEAM! 2nd Bonus... we visit Petrolia, home of Canada's first oil well.

Let's say you're a major gold producing company and you want to know if you can extract gold from ore using bacteria.... TEAM is here to help. This is the weekly progress report from our Barrick Gold project. Pretty cool stuff eh? _____________________________________________... The main tasks completed this week were identifying a list of sulfur-oxidizing and iron-oxidizing bacteria that could potentially be introduced to a neutral heap leaching setting, and focusing research on growth conditions required for their survival including: temperature; pH; reducing potential; nutrients; sensitivity to toxic compounds; and where they are found naturally. During the meeting with the client, the team received approval for the new outline for the final report. The report will include a table of the potential bacteria and their growth conditions, and the evaluation process used to select to the most appropriate one. The client was also pleased with the idea that if the process was deemed feasible, it be modeled to calculate the amount of acid consumption and lime consumption that would be saved by performing the leaching under neutral conditions. However, she suggested that the team focus more on the potential fatal issues like low oxidation rates, acid production by indigenous bacteria, and iron precipitation coating the remaining pyrite. Moving into next week, the team is focusing on understanding the iron oxidation process and brainstorming methods to either avoid or mitigate the iron hydroxide precipitation problem. A meeting has been set with Dr. Hill, a retired professor who’s research involved the study of enzymes in iron metabolism. The team is hoping to have a better grasp on the mechanism behind the oxidation of iron and how it can be manipulated to better suit a neutral heap environment. Another meeting has been arranged with Dr. Young, a professor of cell cycle genetics and molecular biology. From him, the team hopes to gain some further insight into the process of extracting the enzymes responsible for iron and sulfur oxidation from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans as well as a idea of the difference between intracellular and extracellular oxidation.

I'll be sending an email out to people, but just to give you a heads up, fall classes are Thursday nights at 6:30pm in Dupuis rm 215.

Partial Project List released. See website at: http://team.appsci.queensu.ca/students/project-list.html

To: Incoming Students, Projects are coming in... Expect to get an email from me in the next day or so. - Dave

Hi Everyone, Just to let you know, I've been looking at our projects and reaching out to clients this week trying to get a handle on how we stand with projects. Right now we have only a couple of projects, which is obviously not enough for the number of people who have applied. We need more projects, and you can help. If you are working for a company, please put them in touch with me so we can discuss opportunities. Thank you. - Dave Mody

Sorry for non-existent responses right now. I had a little horseback riding incident, and my typing skills are quite limited. -Dave

Hello Everyone! I've processed the first round of applications. If you have not heard back from Dave Mody, please send him an email because something got lost in the mail. Thank you.

Hello to incoming 2017/2018 TEAM students. Go Sci 18! We've been a little slower hiring a replacement for Oxana than I had expected which has delayed us in getting emails confirming your applications. We're working on it though!

I saw this in a group's wrap-up report and I thought, what a great encapsulation of the TEAM experience. - Dave "I believe as a group we developed key skills in project management. The experience of dealing with a real world client and problem helped show the differences between classroom problems with well-defined boundaries and real world problems that required a lot of assumptions and estimates in order to proceed with the project. It also showed how a seemingly straightfo...rward project could have many complications and take more time than anticipated, and that budgeting time for those eventualities is key to a smooth project. We also all further developed our technical skills and especially our ability to critically analyze situations. We practiced some concepts learned in our other courses that further reinforced our understanding of them. We also learned to really look at values that were calculated or assumptions made and justify if they were reasonable or not, as we learned that one wrong assumption or calculation could set the project back a lot. This happened a few times in the project, but in the later stages as we got more experienced with this kind of thinking we were able to solve problems before they became serious or even before they happened." - anon See more

When your TEAM project takes you to City Hall to do your presentation.

2016/17 TEAM class (partial)

World, meet the BASF team, who are scouring North America looking for opportunities to make business better.

What happens when a client comes to you with an idea to crush Moringa to make edible oils in a third world country as economic development, and the same idea can produce a product that can help make safe drinking water? You say, "Now that's a project for TEAM!!!"

Your dog would like you to see its untapped potential. A cartoon by Peter Steiner. Follow our new cartoon Instagram for more drawings and drollery: http://nyer.cm/O2ZdkrC

When a Global Innovator in Biopharmaceuticals approaches you and says, "We have a very challenging project. We want you to design and determine the economics of building a process facility to manufacture an acquired hemophiliac drug. Are you up for it?" Are you?

To Incoming TEAM students, To clarify the process, once you have submitted your application, once we have enough projects we will send people an email, and we will load you into Solus. There is no need for you to do anything with Solus. We are short projects though, so if you have any contacts please let Oxana or myself know. Thank you. - Dave Mody

Whether the project was about better utilization of geothermal energy, developing mock blood, designing processes, evaluating business ideas, or building projects around an arduino, TEAM has done some cool projects this year. Here's my annual letter to the advisors. We're in serious need of projects for this coming year! If you have a contact please email Oxana or I (Dave Mody). Thank you! Dave & Oxana...Continue reading