.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Manager of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is realized for outstanding solution to SPIE as well as the optics neighborhood via job that developments visual systems style, interacts pupils, and also reveals the enthusiasm of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is an energetic contributor to the optics area, having actually provided at many associations and authored two publications with SPIE Press, consisting of Photonics Guidelines as well as Guidebook to Optomechanical Style as well as Study. Her interaction with the association includes serving on event course boards, the Nominating and also Leadership Growth Board, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Supervisors member. Furthermore, she has joined the SPIE Learning Board and the Gender Equity Commando, which targets to enrich level playing fields and also awareness within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked with various image resolution body layouts, tolerancing, analyses, as well as model analyses in pressed timeframes for both interior development and also outside consumers. She got her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Principle of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She currently functions as a Board member for the Arizona Innovation Council and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland sector collection." Our company are actually surprisingly glad to find Katie Schwertz recognized along with the SPIE President's Honor for her dedication and impactful payments to the optics neighborhood," said Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and also Principal Advertising And Marketing & Sales Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to evolving optical systems design and also inspiring the newest generation of engineers exhibits the development as well as management we strive for at Edmund Optics.".