.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is realized for impressive service to SPIE and also the optics community via job that innovations optical devices concept, interacts students, and allotments the pleasure of optics with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is actually an energetic factor to the optics neighborhood, having provided at various conferences as well as authored pair of publications along with SPIE Push, including Photonics Rules of Thumb and Field Guide to Optomechanical Design and also Analysis. Her engagement along with the company extends to offering on event plan committees, the Nominating as well as Management Growth Board, and also as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Furthermore, she has taken part in the SPIE Learning Board and the Sex Equity Task Force, which aims to enrich level playing fields as well as awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has serviced numerous imaging unit styles, tolerancing, evaluations, as well as prototype evaluations in squeezed timeframes for each inner development as well as exterior clients. She received her BS in Optics from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the University of Arizona. She currently serves as a Board member for the Arizona Innovation Council and Co-Chair of their Optics Valley industry collection." Our company are actually astonishingly happy to see Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE President's Honor for her devotion and also impactful contributions to the optics neighborhood," said Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and also Chief Marketing & Business Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to progressing visual systems concept and also inspiring the next generation of developers shows the technology and leadership our company strive for at Edmund Optics.".