.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has been actually chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is actually identified for impressive solution to SPIE and the optics community through work that innovations optical bodies design, interacts students, and allotments the exhilaration of optics with everyone.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Member, Katie is actually an active factor to the optics area, having presented at countless conferences as well as authored two publications along with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics General Rules as well as Guidebook to Optomechanical Design as well as Study. Her engagement with the association extends to serving on association program committees, the Nominating and Management Advancement Committee, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Supervisors participant. Additionally, she has actually joined the SPIE Education Board and the Gender Equity Commando, which targets to boost level playing fields and also acknowledgment within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually dealt with various image resolution body styles, tolerancing, evaluations, as well as prototype examinations in pressed durations for each interior growth and also exterior consumers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the University of Arizona. She presently functions as a Panel participant for the Arizona Innovation Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley field collection." Our experts are actually astonishingly proud to view Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE President's Honor for her commitment and also impactful contributions to the optics neighborhood," said Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel and also Chief Advertising & Marketing Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to advancing optical bodies layout and motivating the next generation of designers shows the innovation as well as management our company strive for at Edmund Optics.".