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.
A lot of different companies and a lot of different groups here at the March Madness of the Mind did travel to different third world nations. At MineWerks, we didn't. We didn't travel to any of these countries. Though I think it would be very striking to go there and see it, I think anybody who h...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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