.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been picked as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is actually realized for superior company to SPIE and also the optics community by means of work that innovations optical devices layout, interacts students, and also allotments the pleasure of optics with the public.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is an active factor to the optics community, having shown at several events as well as authored 2 magazines along with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics General Rules and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Design and Analysis. Her engagement along with the association includes providing on conference course boards, the Nominating and also Leadership Growth Committee, and also as a past SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. In addition, she has actually joined the SPIE Learning Committee and the Sex Equity Commando, which strives to enrich level playing fields and also recognition within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with several image resolution device designs, tolerancing, reviews, and prototype assessments in pressed durations for both inner development as well as outside customers. She acquired her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Principle of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She currently acts as a Panel participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Council and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley sector collection." Our team are actually incredibly proud to see Katie Schwertz recognized with the SPIE President's Award for her devotion and also impactful additions to the optics neighborhood," stated Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board as well as Principal Marketing & Marketing Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing visual systems design as well as inspiring the next generation of engineers shows the development as well as leadership our experts pursue at Edmund Optics.".