.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is recognized for excellent service to SPIE and also the optics area with work that innovations visual units style, interacts trainees, and portions the enthusiasm of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Senior Member, Katie is actually an active factor to the optics neighborhood, having actually offered at several associations as well as authored 2 publications with SPIE Press, including Photonics Guidelines and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Design as well as Evaluation. Her engagement along with the institution extends to serving on association plan committees, the Nominating and also Management Progression Board, and also as a past SPIE Board of Supervisors member. Furthermore, she has actually joined the SPIE Education Committee and the Sex Equity Task Force, which strives to boost equal opportunities as well as acknowledgment within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked on numerous image resolution unit concepts, tolerancing, analyses, and prototype assessments in pressed timeframes for both interior development and outside consumers. She got her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She presently works as a Panel member for the Arizona Innovation Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley business bunch." Our team are extremely happy to observe Katie Schwertz realized along with the SPIE President's Award for her commitment and also impactful contributions to the optics community," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and Main Advertising And Marketing & Business Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to advancing optical units design and impressive the future generation of designers displays the innovation as well as management our experts pursue at Edmund Optics.".