.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is realized for excellent company to SPIE as well as the optics community through work that advancements visual bodies design, engages trainees, and also reveals the enjoyment of optics with everyone.As an SPIE Elderly Person Participant, Katie is actually an energetic factor to the optics neighborhood, having actually presented at many events and also authored pair of publications with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics Rules of Thumb and Guidebook to Optomechanical Style and also Analysis. Her engagement along with the institution includes providing on event system boards, the Nominating and Management Growth Committee, and also as a past SPIE Board of Directors participant. Also, she has joined the SPIE Education Committee and the Gender Equity Commando, which strives to enhance equal opportunities as well as recognition within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with numerous imaging unit styles, tolerancing, evaluations, as well as model evaluations in compressed timeframes for each inner growth and also 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 currently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Technology Council and Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland market set." We are surprisingly pleased to view Katie Schwertz acknowledged with the SPIE President's Honor for her devotion as well as impactful contributions to the optics community," said Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and Principal Marketing & Sales Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to evolving optical systems design as well as inspiring the next generation of developers exemplifies the advancement and management we pursue at Edmund Optics.".