.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been decided on as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is recognized for impressive solution to SPIE and also the optics area with work that advancements optical bodies layout, interacts students, and allotments the pleasure of optics with the public.As an SPIE Elder Member, Katie is an active factor to the optics area, having provided at various associations as well as authored 2 magazines along with SPIE Push, consisting of Photonics Guidelines and Guidebook to Optomechanical Design and also Review. Her engagement along with the company extends to providing on event plan boards, the Nominating as well as Management Advancement Committee, and as a previous SPIE Panel of Supervisors participant. Furthermore, she has participated in the SPIE Learning Board as well as the Sex Equity Task Force, which strives to boost equal opportunities as well as awareness within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has focused on a variety of image resolution body layouts, tolerancing, evaluations, and also prototype evaluations in compressed durations for each internal advancement and exterior consumers. She obtained her BS in Optics from the Educational institution of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences from the College of Arizona. She presently works as a Panel member for the Arizona Modern Technology Council and Co-Chair of their Optics Valley sector cluster." We are surprisingly glad to find Katie Schwertz recognized with the SPIE President's Honor for her commitment as well as impactful additions to the optics community," mentioned Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and Principal Advertising & Business Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to advancing visual systems concept as well as motivating the newest generation of designers displays the development as well as management our company pursue at Edmund Optics.".