.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is actually recognized for impressive solution to SPIE and also the optics area via work that advances optical units style, involves pupils, and also portions the pleasure of optics with the public.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Participant, Katie is an energetic contributor to the optics community, having actually shown at several events as well as authored pair of publications along with SPIE Press, including Photonics Rules of Thumb and Guidebook to Optomechanical Design and also Analysis. Her interaction with the organization encompasses offering on conference program committees, the Nominating as well as Leadership Growth Board, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Directors member. Additionally, she has actually joined the SPIE Education And Learning Committee and the Gender Equity Task Force, which intends to enrich equal opportunities as well as acknowledgment within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked on a variety of image resolution device designs, tolerancing, studies, as well as prototype assessments in compressed timeframes for each inner advancement and also outside customers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the University of Arizona. She presently works as a Panel participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland sector set." Our team are actually unbelievably pleased to find Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE President's Award for her devotion as well as impactful contributions to the optics area," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and also Principal Marketing & Sales Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to evolving optical systems style as well as impressive the next generation of designers exhibits the innovation and also management our company strive for at Edmund Optics.".