.Katie Schwertz, Elder Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is acknowledged for outstanding service to SPIE and also the optics community by means of work that breakthroughs optical units concept, interacts trainees, as well as portions the exhilaration of optics with the public.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is an energetic factor to the optics community, having provided at various conferences and authored 2 magazines along with SPIE Push, including Photonics Rules of Thumb and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Design and Analysis. Her interaction along with the association reaches offering on conference plan boards, the Nominating and Leadership Growth Board, and also as a past SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. In addition, she has taken part in the SPIE Education And Learning Board as well as the Gender Equity Task Force, which targets to enrich equal opportunities and also awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually serviced several image resolution body layouts, tolerancing, studies, as well as model assessments in pressed durations for both interior progression and also external 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 University of Arizona. She presently serves as a Board member for the Arizona Modern Technology Council as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley industry bunch." Our company are actually extremely pleased to observe Katie Schwertz realized along with the SPIE President's Honor for her devotion and also impactful payments to the optics neighborhood," stated Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel and also Chief Marketing & Business Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to evolving optical systems style as well as impressive the newest generation of designers shows the advancement and management our experts pursue at Edmund Optics.".