.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is actually realized for superior service to SPIE and also the optics community by means of job that breakthroughs optical devices style, interacts students, and also reveals the excitement of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Member, Katie is actually an active factor to the optics area, having actually provided at numerous conferences and also authored 2 publications with SPIE Press, featuring Photonics Rules of Thumb as well as Field Guide to Optomechanical Style as well as Review. Her involvement with the institution includes offering on association system boards, the Nominating and Leadership Advancement Board, and as a past SPIE Board of Directors participant. Furthermore, she has actually joined the SPIE Education And Learning Committee as well as the Gender Equity Task Force, which strives to improve equal opportunities as well as awareness within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has dealt with numerous imaging body designs, tolerancing, reviews, and also prototype assessments in compressed timeframes for each internal growth as well as exterior customers. She obtained her BS in Optics from the Educational institution of Rochester's Institute of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She currently functions as a Board member for the Arizona Modern Technology Council and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland sector set." Our company are actually unbelievably honored to observe Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her devotion and also impactful payments to the optics area," stated Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and also Principal Marketing & Sales Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to progressing visual devices layout and also inspiring the newest generation of developers embodies the technology and also management our team pursue at Edmund Optics.".