.Katie Schwertz, Senior Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is actually acknowledged for outstanding solution to SPIE and the optics area with job that innovations visual bodies design, interacts trainees, as well as allotments the enthusiasm of optics with the general public.As an SPIE Elderly Person Participant, Katie is actually an energetic factor to the optics community, having offered at several associations and authored 2 publications with SPIE Press, featuring Photonics General Rules and Guidebook to Optomechanical Design as well as Review. Her engagement along with the institution reaches providing on association program committees, the Nominating as well as Leadership Progression Board, and as a past SPIE Board of Directors participant. Additionally, she has actually participated in the SPIE Education Board as well as the Gender Equity Commando, which targets to improve level playing fields as well as recognition within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with various image resolution unit layouts, tolerancing, studies, and also prototype evaluations in pressed durations for both internal development as well as exterior clients. She received her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences from the College of Arizona. She presently functions as a Panel participant for the Arizona Technology Council as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market set." Our experts are actually very happy to observe Katie Schwertz identified along with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her commitment and also impactful additions to the optics area," stated Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and also Chief Advertising And Marketing & Sales Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to accelerating optical units layout and also inspiring the next generation of designers embodies the innovation and also management we strive for at Edmund Optics.".