.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is realized for outstanding solution to SPIE and the optics community via job that advances visual systems style, involves pupils, and also allotments the excitement of optics along with the general 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 with SPIE Push, including Photonics Rules of Thumb and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Layout and also Analysis. Her engagement with the organization includes providing on conference course boards, the Nominating and Leadership Advancement Board, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Directors participant. In addition, she has taken part in the SPIE Learning Board as well as the Sex Equity Commando, which strives to boost equal opportunities as well as acknowledgment within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually serviced numerous image resolution body concepts, tolerancing, analyses, as well as prototype examinations in squeezed durations for each interior development as well as exterior customers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. She currently functions as a Panel participant for the Arizona Technology Authorities and Co-Chair of their Optics Valley field collection." We are surprisingly proud to see Katie Schwertz recognized along with the SPIE Head of state's Award for her devotion and also impactful payments to the optics area," mentioned Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and Principal Marketing & Business Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to advancing optical devices style and motivating the newest generation of developers exhibits the technology as well as management our experts pursue at Edmund Optics.".