.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been actually chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is identified for exceptional company to SPIE and the optics neighborhood through job that innovations optical devices concept, engages students, and also portions the pleasure of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics community, having actually presented at many associations and authored two magazines along with SPIE Push, including Photonics General Rules and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Style as well as Study. Her involvement with the institution reaches providing on conference plan committees, the Nominating and Leadership Advancement Board, and also as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Furthermore, she has participated in the SPIE Education Board as well as the Gender Equity Commando, which aims to enhance level playing fields and also acknowledgment within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has serviced a variety of image resolution unit styles, tolerancing, analyses, and prototype analyses in compressed timeframes for each interior progression as well as outside consumers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Principle of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently functions as a Board member for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and Co-Chair of their Optics Valley sector set." We are actually astonishingly happy to view Katie Schwertz identified along with the SPIE Head of state's Award for her devotion and impactful contributions to the optics neighborhood," mentioned Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and also Main Advertising & Sales Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to advancing visual units layout as well as motivating the next generation of developers displays the advancement and leadership our team pursue at Edmund Optics.".