Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability
| I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. – John D. Rockefeller |
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Stanford's Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability (EDEA) class is a two-quarter class offered jointly by the School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Business. Students apply engineering and business skills to design comprehensive solutions for a specific challenge faced by the world's poor. Students work with in-country partners to develop and refine their products.
Project Redwood has provided support for the following projects:
- AdaptAir: nasal interface to deliver oxygen to children with pneumonia
- Affordable Pressure Pump: single valve pressure pump
- Caregiver Infusion System: flow rate regulator for IV medication delivery
- DrinkWell: water fortification device for rural Rwanda
- DripTech: laser processing technique to produce cost-efficient, non-plugging irrigation tubing
- EZ*PZ: low cost waste treatment system
- From Concentrate: solar powered battery charger
- Illuminate For Life: portable, effective device for treatment of jaundice
- Inspire: low cost breathing assistant for children with pneumonia
- InfiniCAN: 200-gallon water storage device to provide irrigation for farmers
- Komera: low cost mixer to distribute fortification into flour
- Mighty Mitad: affordable metal band to reduce breakage of the mitad, a cooking surface used in Ethiopia
- Pepper Eater: mechanical processor to grind dried red pepper for market
- Pump It Up: piston pump with 50' target depth and 500 gph flow rate
- RiceRunner: fertilizer pellet applicator
- SAFI: hand cleaner to improve sanitation
- SmartNet: mobile mosquito net for migrant workers
In addition to providing grants for these initiatives, we encourage classmates to support funded and future EDEA project teams by attending design review sessions, providing pro-bono consulting and contacts in finance and other areas of expertise, serving on boards of directors and mentoring students as they bring their products to market.
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