.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is actually acknowledged for excellent service to SPIE and the optics community via work that advancements visual systems style, interacts trainees, as well as allotments the exhilaration of optics along with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Member, Katie is actually an energetic factor to the optics community, having shown at countless events as well as authored 2 magazines with SPIE Press, featuring Photonics Rules of Thumb and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Design as well as Study. Her interaction along with the company reaches offering on association plan boards, the Nominating as well as Leadership Development Committee, and also as a past SPIE Board of Directors participant. In addition, she has actually participated in the SPIE Learning Board as well as the Sex Equity Task Force, which targets to improve equal opportunities and recognition within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually focused on various image resolution unit concepts, tolerancing, analyses, as well as model examinations in pressed timeframes for both internal progression and outside clients. She got her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She presently functions as a Board member for the Arizona Modern Technology Council as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland business collection." Our team are actually exceptionally happy to view Katie Schwertz acknowledged along with the SPIE Head of state's Award for her devotion and impactful payments to the optics neighborhood," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel as well as Principal Advertising And Marketing & Business Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to advancing visual bodies style as well as inspiring the future generation of developers displays the technology and leadership our team strive for at Edmund Optics.".