.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is acknowledged for excellent solution to SPIE and the optics neighborhood with job that innovations visual devices style, involves students, and also reveals the pleasure of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Elderly Person Participant, Katie is actually an energetic factor to the optics neighborhood, having shown at numerous conferences and also authored pair of magazines with SPIE Push, including Photonics Guidelines and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Design as well as Study. Her interaction along with the institution includes offering on conference plan committees, the Nominating and Leadership Development Committee, and as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors member. Also, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Learning Board and also the Sex Equity Commando, which targets to boost level playing fields and acknowledgment within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked with a variety of image resolution unit styles, tolerancing, evaluations, as well as model examinations in squeezed durations for each interior progression and also exterior clients. She obtained her BS in Optics from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently serves as a Panel member for the Arizona Technology Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley field collection." Our experts are actually exceptionally happy to find Katie Schwertz identified with the SPIE President's Award for her devotion and also impactful additions to the optics area," mentioned Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and also Principal Advertising And Marketing & Business Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to advancing visual bodies design and uplifting the future generation of developers embodies the technology as well as management we pursue at Edmund Optics.".