.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is identified for outstanding service to SPIE as well as the optics area through work that breakthroughs visual systems concept, involves pupils, as well as portions the enjoyment of optics along with everyone.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Participant, Katie is an energetic contributor to the optics neighborhood, having actually provided at countless associations as well as authored 2 publications along with SPIE Push, including Photonics General Rules as well as Field Guide to Optomechanical Style and also Evaluation. Her interaction along with the company reaches serving on association course committees, the Nominating and Management Development Committee, and also as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Furthermore, she has actually joined the SPIE Education Committee and also the Gender Equity Task Force, which strives to improve equal opportunities as well as recognition within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with numerous imaging body layouts, tolerancing, analyses, and also model examinations in pressed durations for each inner growth and exterior clients. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the College of Rochester's Principle of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently acts as a Panel member for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland market cluster." Our team are actually unbelievably glad to find Katie Schwertz recognized with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her commitment and impactful contributions to the optics community," mentioned Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and also Principal Advertising & Sales Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to advancing visual bodies style and also motivating the future generation of designers displays the innovation and also management our company strive for at Edmund Optics.".