.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually decided on as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is recognized for excellent company to SPIE and the optics community through work that innovations optical units layout, interacts students, as well as allotments the pleasure of optics along with everyone.As an SPIE Elderly Person Member, Katie is actually an active factor to the optics neighborhood, having presented at many events and authored pair of magazines with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics Rules of Thumb as well as Field Guide to Optomechanical Design as well as Analysis. Her engagement with the company reaches serving on association plan committees, the Nominating as well as Management Growth Board, and as a previous SPIE Panel of Supervisors participant. Additionally, she has actually joined the SPIE Education Board and the Gender Equity Task Force, which aims to enrich level playing fields and also acknowledgment within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked on numerous image resolution system layouts, tolerancing, studies, and prototype analyses in compressed durations for both inner progression and also outside consumers. She got her BS in Optics 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 acts as a Panel participant for the Arizona Innovation Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland industry cluster." Our team are very happy to find Katie Schwertz realized along with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her devotion and also impactful additions to the optics area," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and also Principal Advertising And Marketing & Business Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to evolving visual systems style as well as motivating the newest generation of developers embodies the innovation and also management our team strive for at Edmund Optics.".