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Kevin Menear Discusses Decision To Be An Entrepreneur

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  • Date Added : 3/20/2009
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Kevin Menear

  • Director, MineWerks
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1987 (Age: 37 years old)
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
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Biography

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.

I never had experience before with entrepreneurship until I started this project with MineWerks. I think the tipping point for me was ....let me give you a little background. My focus is mechanical engineering. More specifically, physics-based modeling and simulation. We do a lot of things with ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 12 Kevin Menear Discusses Current Technology for Landmine Detonation
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 4 min. 49 sec.
Video 2 of 12 Kevin Menear Discusses New Technology For Landmine Detonation Developed At MineWerks
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 1 min. 38 sec.
Video 3 of 12 Kevin Menear States Importance of NCIIA Funding For MineWerks Project
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 0 min. 37 sec.
Video 4 of 12 Kevin Menear Discusses Encouragement To Create Innovative Technology That Served Social Need
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 0 min. 58 sec.
Video 5 of 12 Kevin Menear Discusses Challenges Of Being An Engineer And Starting A Business
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
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  • 0 min. 0 sec.
Video 6 of 12 Kevin Menear States Entrepreneurs Are In The Best Position To Change The World
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 1 min. 18 sec.
Video 7 of 12 Kevin Menear Discusses Decision To Be An Entrepreneur
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 1 min. 48 sec.
Video 8 of 12 Kevin Menear Encourages Students To Consider Entrepreneurship
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 1 min. 49 sec.
Video 9 of 12 Kevin Menear States Business Planning Helps You Refine Your Strategy
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 1 min. 31 sec.
Video 10 of 12 Kevin Menear States You Don't Have To Travel The Globe To Understand That People Are Suffering
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 1 min. 39 sec.
Video 11 of 12 Kevin Menear States Having A Mentor Can Be Life Support For A Young Entrepreneur
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 1 min. 1 sec.
Video 12 of 12 Kevin Menear Shares Thoughts On Finding A Mentor
  • Kevin Menear - Interview - MineWerks
  • 3/20/2009
  • Kevin Menear
  • 1 min. 32 sec.

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