Envirofit
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Graduate |
| Discipline(s): |
Community-based Service Learning Electrical Engineering Engineering Management Entrepreneurship and Innovation Environmental Engineering General Engineering, Engineering Science Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Project |
| Media Type: |
Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Ron Bills |
| Description: | Envirofit develops and disseminates products and services that address major environmental problems in the developing world. Established as a U.S. tax-exempt corporation, Envirofit utilizes initial donations and institutional support to fund product development and early stage product commercialization, and then uses operating income to develop and expand its businesses. In the rank of organizations developing products for "bottom of the pyramid" markets, Envirofit is unique in its utilization of the same rigorous product-development methodology and protocols used by modern industry. This requires rigor in areas like design, validation, manufacturing, quality control, supply chain management, distribution, inventory management, and marketing. Envirofit's goal is thus to build and operate self-sustaining businesses as an entrepreneurial, commmercially-driven, independent, non-profit organization. MISSION Envirofit International was established to develop well-engineered technology solutions to improve the human condition on a global scale, with a primary emphasis on applications in the developing world. Envirofit's goal is to develop and distribute well-engineered energy products for low-income markets that traditionally have been overlooked. |
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| Keywords: | project-based learning service learning |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
| Use of Resource: |
Good example of community-based project learning out of Colorado State University. |
| Difficulty: |
Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
Low |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | June 2009 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.envirofit.org/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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