.Katie Schwertz, Elderly Person Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is identified for impressive solution to SPIE and the optics community by means of work that advances visual devices layout, interacts trainees, and also reveals the excitement of optics with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Participant, Katie is an energetic factor to the optics area, having actually shown at various associations and authored 2 magazines along with SPIE Press, including Photonics Guidelines as well as Guidebook to Optomechanical Style and Analysis. Her interaction along with the association extends to serving on event program boards, the Nominating and Management Progression Committee, and as a previous SPIE Panel of Supervisors member. Furthermore, she has participated in the SPIE Education Board and also the Gender Equity Commando, which intends to improve equal opportunities and also awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually dealt with various imaging body concepts, tolerancing, evaluations, as well as prototype assessments in pressed durations for both internal development as well as external consumers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Principle of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She presently functions as a Board member for the Arizona Technology Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market cluster." Our experts are actually exceptionally proud to view Katie Schwertz realized along with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her commitment as well as impactful contributions to the optics neighborhood," claimed Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and also Main Advertising & Marketing Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to advancing optical bodies design and also impressive the newest generation of engineers embodies the development and also management we strive for at Edmund Optics.".