.Katie Schwertz, Senior Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually decided on as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is identified for superior company to SPIE and the optics community by means of job that breakthroughs visual devices style, involves pupils, as well as reveals the exhilaration of optics with the public.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Member, Katie is an active contributor to the optics area, having actually provided at many associations and also authored two magazines along with SPIE Press, consisting of Photonics Guidelines and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Layout and also Analysis. Her engagement along with the association extends to offering on event plan committees, the Nominating and Leadership Development Committee, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Supervisors member. Also, she has taken part in the SPIE Education Board as well as the Gender Equity Commando, which intends to enrich equal opportunities and also awareness within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has focused on a variety of imaging body layouts, tolerancing, studies, and model evaluations in squeezed timeframes for each interior development and also external consumers. She got her BS in Optics from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the University of Arizona. She currently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market bunch." We are surprisingly glad to see Katie Schwertz recognized with the SPIE President's Award for her devotion as well as impactful payments to the optics neighborhood," claimed Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and Chief Marketing & Marketing Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to evolving visual systems design as well as uplifting the newest generation of designers displays the advancement and also management our experts strive for at Edmund Optics.".