.Katie Schwertz, Elderly Person Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been picked as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is acknowledged for impressive solution to SPIE as well as the optics area by means of work that advances optical units design, interacts trainees, and also reveals the exhilaration of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Elderly Person Member, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics neighborhood, having actually provided at countless events and authored two publications along with SPIE Press, including Photonics General Rules and Field Guide to Optomechanical Concept and also Study. Her engagement along with the company extends to providing on association program boards, the Nominating as well as Management Development Committee, and as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Also, she has participated in the SPIE Learning Board as well as the Sex Equity Task Force, which aims to enhance equal opportunities and also recognition within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with several image resolution device layouts, tolerancing, studies, as well as prototype evaluations in pressed timeframes for both inner advancement as well as external customers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently functions as a Board member for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland market cluster." Our team are unbelievably glad to find Katie Schwertz identified with the SPIE President's Honor for her dedication as well as impactful contributions to the optics area," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and also Main Advertising And Marketing & Marketing Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to evolving visual units design and uplifting the newest generation of developers exhibits the innovation as well as leadership our experts strive for at Edmund Optics.".