.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is recognized for outstanding solution to SPIE as well as the optics area through job that breakthroughs optical units layout, engages trainees, and also allotments the pleasure of optics with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Member, Katie is an active factor to the optics area, having provided at many associations and authored 2 publications along with SPIE Push, consisting of Photonics General Rules and Field Guide to Optomechanical Concept as well as Evaluation. Her interaction along with the association includes offering on event program boards, the Nominating and Management Development Committee, and also as a past SPIE Board of Supervisors member. Furthermore, she has actually participated in the SPIE Education And Learning Committee and the Sex Equity Commando, which intends to improve level playing fields and also awareness within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked with numerous imaging device layouts, tolerancing, reviews, and prototype analyses in pressed durations for both inner progression and also external customers. She acquired her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Principle 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 Technology Council and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market set." Our team are astonishingly proud to observe Katie Schwertz recognized along with the SPIE President's Award for her devotion and also impactful contributions to the optics neighborhood," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and Principal Advertising & Marketing Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to progressing visual devices layout as well as motivating the newest generation of designers exhibits the development and also management we strive for at Edmund Optics.".