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Design for Demining

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesEC.S06
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2007English
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Humanitarian Demining is the process of detecting, removing and disposing of landmines. Millions of landmines are buried in more than 80 countries resulting in more than 10,000 civilian victims every year. MIT Design for Demining is a design course that spans the entire product design and development process from identification of needs and idea generation to prototyping and blast testing to manufacture and deployment. Technical, business and customer aspects are addressed.

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