.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is identified for impressive company to SPIE and also the optics neighborhood via job that advances visual systems design, involves pupils, as well as shares the enjoyment of optics along with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Participant, Katie is an active factor to the optics neighborhood, having provided at several conferences and authored two magazines along with SPIE Push, including Photonics Guidelines and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Layout and also Analysis. Her involvement along with the association reaches providing on association course boards, the Nominating as well as Management Advancement Board, and as a previous SPIE Board of Directors member. Furthermore, she has joined the SPIE Education And Learning Committee and also the Gender Equity Commando, which targets to improve equal opportunities and also recognition within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually serviced various image resolution body layouts, tolerancing, studies, as well as model analyses in squeezed durations for each interior development and external clients. She received her BS in Optics from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences from the College of Arizona. She presently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley sector bunch." Our company are actually unbelievably honored to see Katie Schwertz recognized along with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her commitment and impactful payments to the optics neighborhood," claimed Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel as well as Principal Advertising & Sales Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing visual units design and impressive the future generation of developers shows the innovation and management we pursue at Edmund Optics.".