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.
Mentorship, in general, is, I believe, is very important. It's very important for a lot of reasons, but, for me, one is most striking and most important. And that is because entrepreneurship is hard. It's hard to go out there on a limb. It's hard to have $40,000 worth of debt and say, You know, ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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