.Katie Schwertz, Elderly Person Manager of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is actually recognized for impressive company to SPIE and the optics community through work that advances visual systems design, involves trainees, and also allotments the excitement of optics with everyone.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Participant, Katie is an active factor to the optics area, having actually presented at countless events as well as authored two magazines with SPIE Press, consisting of Photonics Rules of Thumb and Field Guide to Optomechanical Concept and also Analysis. Her engagement along with the association encompasses providing on conference plan committees, the Nominating and Leadership Development Committee, and as a past SPIE Board of Supervisors member. In addition, she has taken part in the SPIE Education Board as well as the Gender Equity Task Force, which targets to enhance level playing fields and awareness within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has serviced a variety of imaging system styles, tolerancing, analyses, and also prototype analyses in compressed durations for each inner advancement as well as exterior clients. She got her BS in Optics from the University of Rochester's Principle of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the University of Arizona. She currently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Council as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland market bunch." We are astonishingly pleased to find Katie Schwertz realized along with the SPIE Head of state's Award for her commitment and impactful payments to the optics neighborhood," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and Principal Marketing & Sales Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to evolving visual units design and also impressive the next generation of designers shows the development and management our company strive for at Edmund Optics.".