.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Manager of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually picked as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is realized for impressive solution to SPIE and the optics area with job that breakthroughs visual systems style, involves students, and allotments the enthusiasm of optics along with everyone.As an SPIE Elderly Person Member, Katie is an active factor to the optics neighborhood, having shown at various conferences and authored pair of publications with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics Rules of Thumb as well as Guidebook to Optomechanical Style as well as Study. Her interaction along with the organization encompasses offering on association program boards, the Nominating and also Leadership Progression Committee, and as a past SPIE Panel of Supervisors participant. In addition, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Learning Board and the Sex Equity Commando, which aims to boost equal opportunities as well as awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has dealt with numerous imaging system layouts, tolerancing, studies, and also prototype examinations in compressed timeframes for each interior advancement and also exterior clients. She got her BS in Optics from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She currently acts as a Board participant for the Arizona Innovation Authorities and Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland industry bunch." Our company are incredibly pleased to observe Katie Schwertz identified along with the SPIE President's Honor for her commitment and impactful payments to the optics community," said Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and Main Marketing & Sales Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing optical devices style and impressive the next generation of designers displays the innovation and management our team strive for at Edmund Optics.".