Kevin Menear is the Director of R&D for Mechanical Systems at MineWerks. MineWerks was founded by a team of students at RPI dedicated to the eradication of such buried explosives as landmines and roadside bombs.
MineWerks' detection technology is being developed at a time when over 2,000 people are being killed or maimed by buried landmines and other explosives each month. Competing technologies are far too expensive, time-consuming, and hazardous to personnel on the ground to be capable of addressing the worldwide threat of unexploded ordinances in a meaningful way.
Kevin Menear is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Well, in Professor Swersey's Inventor Studio course, he pushes us, absolutely, 100%, to do something worthwhile; and not just worthwhile for our pockets, worthwhile for the community, worthwhile socially or environmentally. His influence really has spurred and pushed us forward with this idea, but,...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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