.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is acknowledged for outstanding service to SPIE as well as the optics area via work that innovations visual systems layout, interacts students, as well as shares the enthusiasm of optics along with everyone.As an SPIE Elderly Person Participant, Katie is an active factor to the optics neighborhood, having actually shown at numerous conferences and also authored 2 magazines with SPIE Push, consisting of Photonics Guidelines and Field Guide to Optomechanical Layout and Review. Her involvement with the company reaches serving on association program boards, the Nominating and also Management Advancement Board, and as a past SPIE Board of Supervisors member. Furthermore, she has taken part in the SPIE Education Board and also the Sex Equity Commando, which aims to boost equal opportunities and also acknowledgment within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with a variety of image resolution unit layouts, tolerancing, reviews, and prototype assessments in squeezed durations for each inner growth and also outside customers. She got her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Principle of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences from the College of Arizona. She presently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Innovation Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland industry collection." Our company are actually extremely proud to find Katie Schwertz acknowledged along with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her devotion and also impactful additions to the optics area," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and also Chief Advertising And Marketing & Sales Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to progressing visual bodies design and also motivating the future generation of developers exemplifies the advancement as well as leadership our team pursue at Edmund Optics.".