.Katie Schwertz, Elder Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been actually chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is actually acknowledged for excellent company to SPIE as well as the optics area with work that innovations visual bodies layout, interacts trainees, as well as shares the enjoyment of optics with the general public.As an SPIE Elderly Person Participant, Katie is an energetic factor to the optics area, having presented at numerous associations and authored two publications along with SPIE Press, consisting of Photonics Rules of Thumb and Field Guide to Optomechanical Layout and also Review. Her involvement along with the organization extends to providing on conference program committees, the Nominating as well as Leadership Advancement Board, and as a past SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Also, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Education Board as well as the Sex Equity Commando, which intends to improve equal opportunities and acknowledgment within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has dealt with various imaging device designs, tolerancing, analyses, as well as prototype analyses in pressed durations for both interior growth as well as outside customers. She got her BS in Optics from the University of Rochester's Principle of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently serves as a Board member for the Arizona Innovation Council and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland market bunch." We are actually exceptionally proud to see Katie Schwertz acknowledged with the SPIE President's Award for her dedication and also impactful contributions to the optics area," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and Principal Marketing & Business Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to accelerating optical devices layout as well as uplifting the future generation of engineers shows the advancement as well as management we pursue at Edmund Optics.".