.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually decided on as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is recognized for excellent solution to SPIE as well as the optics neighborhood with job that advances optical devices concept, involves trainees, and also allotments the excitement of optics with everyone.As an SPIE Senior Member, Katie is actually an energetic contributor to the optics neighborhood, having actually presented at several conferences and also authored pair of magazines along with SPIE Push, including Photonics Rules of Thumb as well as Field Guide to Optomechanical Layout as well as Analysis. Her involvement along with the association reaches serving on conference program boards, the Nominating as well as Leadership Development Board, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Directors participant. Also, she has participated in the SPIE Education Committee and the Sex Equity Commando, which targets to boost equal opportunities as well as awareness within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked on several imaging device concepts, tolerancing, analyses, and also prototype examinations in squeezed timeframes for both interior progression and outside consumers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Principle of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She currently works as a Panel member for the Arizona Technology Authorities and Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market collection." We are actually unbelievably honored to find Katie Schwertz recognized along with the SPIE Head of state's Award for her devotion as well as impactful additions to the optics community," claimed Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and Principal Advertising And Marketing & Business Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to accelerating optical bodies design as well as motivating the next generation of designers displays the advancement as well as management our team strive for at Edmund Optics.".