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.
It gave me a perspective really. I had no experience with starting a business. I had no idea what it really meant to start a business. I had ideas. I'm an engineer so I can apply my engineering tactics to a lot of different elements, but, I really had no idea what it took to really create a busi...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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