.Katie Schwertz, Senior Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is actually acknowledged for outstanding solution to SPIE and the optics neighborhood via job that breakthroughs optical units style, interacts trainees, as well as portions the excitement of optics along with everyone.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is an energetic factor to the optics area, having actually offered at various events and also authored pair of magazines with SPIE Push, including Photonics Rules of Thumb and Guidebook to Optomechanical Layout and also Study. Her interaction along with the institution reaches providing on association course boards, the Nominating and also Leadership Advancement Committee, and as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors member. Furthermore, she has taken part in the SPIE Education Board as well as the Gender Equity Commando, which strives to boost equal opportunities as well as acknowledgment within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually focused on a variety of image resolution body styles, tolerancing, studies, as well as model analyses in pressed durations for both internal development and exterior consumers. She received her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences from the College of Arizona. She presently functions as a Panel member for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley business collection." We are actually astonishingly pleased to see Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE President's Award for her commitment and also impactful additions to the optics area," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and also Chief Advertising & Marketing Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to advancing visual systems layout and motivating the newest generation of designers exhibits the development as well as management our company pursue at Edmund Optics.".