.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is actually acknowledged for outstanding service to SPIE and the optics community through job that advances optical bodies layout, involves students, and reveals the enjoyment of optics along with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Member, Katie is actually an active factor to the optics area, having provided at various conferences as well as authored pair of publications along with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics Guidelines as well as Guidebook to Optomechanical Style and Review. Her involvement along with the association includes serving on association plan boards, the Nominating and Leadership Growth Committee, and also as a past SPIE Panel of Directors member. Additionally, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Education And Learning Board and the Gender Equity Commando, which targets to boost equal opportunities and awareness within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has dealt with different imaging device designs, tolerancing, reviews, as well as model evaluations in pressed durations for both inner growth and also external consumers. She got her BS in Optics from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She currently serves as a Panel member for the Arizona Innovation Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley sector cluster." Our company are actually unbelievably pleased to observe Katie Schwertz recognized with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her devotion as well as impactful additions to the optics area," said Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and Main Marketing & Sales Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing optical units layout as well as inspiring the newest generation of designers exhibits the development as well as leadership our experts pursue at Edmund Optics.".