.Katie Schwertz, Elderly Person Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been decided on as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is acknowledged for outstanding solution to SPIE and the optics neighborhood through work that breakthroughs visual devices style, engages pupils, as well as portions the exhilaration of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Elder Member, Katie is an energetic contributor to the optics area, having offered at numerous events and authored two publications along with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics General Rules and Field Guide to Optomechanical Concept and Analysis. Her involvement with the organization extends to providing on conference system committees, the Nominating and Management Advancement Committee, and also as a past SPIE Panel of Directors participant. In addition, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Learning Committee and the Gender Equity Task Force, which aims to enrich level playing fields and acknowledgment within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with different imaging device designs, tolerancing, studies, and also model examinations in pressed timeframes for both interior advancement and outside consumers. She received her BS in Optics from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the University of Arizona. She presently functions as a Panel member for the Arizona Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market collection." Our experts are actually astonishingly honored to find Katie Schwertz identified with the SPIE President's Honor for her dedication and also impactful payments to the optics neighborhood," mentioned Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board as well as Main Advertising And Marketing & Business Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to advancing visual devices style and also motivating the future generation of developers shows the advancement and also management our experts pursue at Edmund Optics.".