.Katie Schwertz, Elderly Person Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has actually been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is recognized for exceptional solution to SPIE as well as the optics community with work that advancements visual units layout, engages students, as well as reveals the enthusiasm of optics with the general public.As an SPIE Elder Member, Katie is actually an energetic contributor to the optics community, having shown at various associations and also authored pair of magazines along with SPIE Press, consisting of Photonics Guidelines and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Layout as well as Analysis. Her involvement along with the company reaches serving on conference course boards, the Nominating and also Management Progression Committee, and also as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Additionally, she has joined the SPIE Learning Board and the Gender Equity Commando, which targets to enhance equal opportunities and also acknowledgment within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has serviced various imaging device designs, tolerancing, analyses, and also model evaluations in compressed durations for each inner progression and also external consumers. She received her BS in Optics coming from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. She presently works as a Panel member for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley sector cluster." Our company are incredibly proud to view Katie Schwertz acknowledged with the SPIE President's Honor for her commitment as well as impactful contributions to the optics community," claimed Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel as well as Chief Advertising & Sales Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to accelerating visual units style and motivating the future generation of engineers exemplifies the development and management our company strive for at Edmund Optics.".