Poojith Kotikalapudi controlled this robot arm as part of a developed system that mimics the operations carried out in industry for automating a visual inspection system.
Penn State Abington students Hridoy Shawkat Ali, Makeeda Murray, Callista Weigel and Farrukh Karimov won the Council for Retail and Sales Collegiate Challenge 2019 Powered by Walmart business competition.
Dr. Gillian Beauchamp, emergency medical physician and toxicologist at the Lehigh Valley Health Network, delivered the final expert presentation of the day. Dr. Beauchamp works with an emergency room team and EMS professionals to treat overdose victims. “The idea,” says Beauchamp, “is that hope happens at a place like a hospital. It happens in an emergency department.”
Bill Rowan, program director of the Center for Counseling Services at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Schuylkill, spoke about counseling and resources pertinent to the disease of addiction.
In his keynote address, Dr. Glenn Sterner, assistant professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Abington, provided an overview of the opioid crisis from the early 2000s until today. “This is a disease. This is not a moral failing,” he said.
