.Katie Schwertz, Senior Manager of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is recognized for superior company to SPIE and also the optics area with work that advances visual bodies concept, engages trainees, as well as allotments the exhilaration of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Member, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics area, having actually provided at several associations as well as authored pair of publications with SPIE Push, consisting of Photonics Guidelines and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Concept and also Evaluation. Her engagement along with the company encompasses offering on association program committees, the Nominating and also Leadership Advancement Board, and also as a past SPIE Board of Directors participant. Also, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Education Board as well as the Sex Equity Commando, which strives to enhance level playing fields and also recognition within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked with numerous image resolution device layouts, tolerancing, reviews, and model analyses in compressed timeframes for each internal development and external customers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Principle of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She presently functions as a Board participant for the Arizona Technology Council and Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland business bunch." Our company are actually extremely glad to view Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE President's Award for her devotion and also impactful payments to the optics community," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel as well as Main Marketing & Business Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to progressing optical units concept and inspiring the newest generation of designers displays the development and also leadership we strive for at Edmund Optics.".