.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is actually acknowledged for superior solution to SPIE as well as the optics area with work that advances optical bodies concept, engages students, as well as portions the enjoyment of optics along with everyone.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is an active factor to the optics area, having provided at numerous conferences and also authored pair of magazines along with SPIE Press, including Photonics Guidelines and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Layout and also Evaluation. Her engagement along with the institution encompasses offering on event program boards, the Nominating and also Management Development Committee, and as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Additionally, she has joined the SPIE Learning Committee and also the Gender Equity Task Force, which targets to boost level playing fields and also acknowledgment within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with different imaging device concepts, tolerancing, analyses, and prototype analyses in squeezed timeframes for each interior growth as well as outside customers. She received her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently works as a Panel member for the Arizona Modern Technology Council and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland industry cluster." We are very happy to find Katie Schwertz acknowledged along with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her devotion as well as impactful payments to the optics community," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and Chief Advertising & Sales Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to evolving optical devices design and also motivating the next generation of designers displays the innovation as well as leadership our team pursue at Edmund Optics.".