.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is actually recognized for outstanding solution to SPIE and also the optics community with job that innovations visual systems design, interacts pupils, and shares the exhilaration of optics with the public.As an SPIE Elder Member, Katie is an energetic contributor to the optics neighborhood, having actually offered at countless conferences as well as authored pair of publications with SPIE Press, consisting of Photonics Rules of Thumb and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Layout as well as Review. Her interaction along with the association includes providing on conference program committees, the Nominating and also Leadership Advancement Board, and as a previous SPIE Board of Directors participant. Also, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Education And Learning Board and also the Sex Equity Task Force, which intends to enhance level playing fields and also recognition within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has serviced several image resolution system concepts, tolerancing, analyses, and prototype evaluations in squeezed durations for both internal development and also external customers. She obtained her BS in Optics from the College of Rochester's Principle of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She currently works as a Board member for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland market set." We are very glad to find Katie Schwertz recognized with the SPIE President's Honor for her dedication as well as impactful payments to the optics community," said Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel as well as Main Advertising & Sales Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing visual units concept and also impressive the next generation of engineers exhibits the innovation as well as leadership our company strive for at Edmund Optics.".