.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has been actually chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is realized for exceptional solution to SPIE as well as the optics neighborhood by means of job that developments optical bodies style, interacts students, and reveals the pleasure of optics along with the general public.As an SPIE Elderly Person Participant, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics community, having provided at countless events and also authored pair of magazines along with SPIE Push, consisting of Photonics Rules of Thumb as well as Guidebook to Optomechanical Layout and also Review. Her interaction along with the company extends to serving on conference plan committees, the Nominating and also Leadership Progression Board, and as a past SPIE Board of Supervisors member. Also, she has joined the SPIE Learning Committee as well as the Sex Equity Task Force, which intends to boost level playing fields and also awareness within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually serviced a variety of image resolution unit styles, tolerancing, reviews, and model evaluations in compressed durations for both inner progression and outside consumers. She got her BS in Optics from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She currently serves as a Board member for the Arizona Innovation Authorities and Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland industry set." Our company are actually very happy to find Katie Schwertz recognized along with the SPIE President's Award for her dedication as well as impactful additions to the optics community," claimed Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel and Chief Marketing & Business Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to advancing visual systems design and also motivating the newest generation of developers displays the advancement and also leadership our experts strive for at Edmund Optics.".