Welcome
We are The Milk to Market Initiative, a group of Southern Methodist University engineering undergraduate seniors taking on DC cooling solutions for small-scale dairy farmers in Rwanda.
We were approached Fall 2016 by Southern Methodist University’s Hunt Institute, who works to combine engineering with humanitarian work all over the globe. They had a rather unusual problem: dairy farmers in Rwanda couldn’t keep their milk product from spoiling over night, resulting in lower profits. Our challenge was to create a cooling solution that could cool and keep cool, all without access to an electric grid. |
Our affectionately-named “IGI CUBA” cooler design enables Rwandan dairy farmers to increase their dairy product sales by 50%, costs USD 97.00 (RWF 80,122.00) per unit, and could potentially be scaled to any third-world country.
We would love for you to explore our designs- all the way from our first ‘fish cooler’ prototype to our Cooling Channel final design. The heat transfer math gets scary and being called “insensible” is the gravest insult in Rwanda, but the product we designed and knowledge we gained is truly amazing. |
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