U-M student entrepreneur profiled
Three cool business innovations are profiled in Entrepreneur's "3 Student Startups That Are Going the Distance" and U-M chemical engineering major Carolyn Yarina made the list with her human-powered centrifuge built from bicycle parts. Excerpt: "Returning to India over the next two summers, she refined her concept and developed contacts. After graduating in 2013, she worked on her centrifuge full time, eventually developing a portable machine dubbed (r)Evolve that can alternate between manual power and electricity. She also lined up engineering and manufacturing support in India. But it dawned on Yarina that she needed to go further. "Once I created our student organization and started going to business classes, I had an epiphany," she says. "Open-source designs are not a viable option if you actually want to get your product out there. If it was just about creating a process to separate blood, we would have been done four years ago." Read the rest here.
Three cool business innovations are profiled in Entrepreneur’s “3 Student Startups That Are Going the Distance” and U-M chemical engineering major Carolyn Yarina made the list with her human-powered centrifuge built from bicycle parts.
Excerpt:
“Returning to India over the next two summers, she refined her concept and developed contacts. After graduating in 2013, she worked on her centrifuge full time, eventually developing a portable machine dubbed (r)Evolve that can alternate between manual power and electricity. She also lined up engineering and manufacturing support in India.
But it dawned on Yarina that she needed to go further. “Once I created our student organization and started going to business classes, I had an epiphany,” she says. “Open-source designs are not a viable option if you actually want to get your product out there. If it was just about creating a process to separate blood, we would have been done four years ago.”
Read the rest here.
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