.Katie Schwertz, Elderly Person Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Honor. She is acknowledged for impressive solution to SPIE and the optics community via job that innovations visual devices concept, interacts pupils, and shares the enjoyment of optics with everyone.As an SPIE Elderly Person Participant, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics community, having actually provided at various conferences and authored 2 publications along with SPIE Press, featuring Photonics Guidelines and Guidebook to Optomechanical Concept and Evaluation. Her involvement with the organization encompasses offering on event plan committees, the Nominating and Management Progression Committee, and as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Additionally, she has taken part in the SPIE Education Committee as well as the Gender Equity Task Force, which targets to improve level playing fields as well as acknowledgment within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked on various image resolution unit designs, tolerancing, reviews, and prototype assessments in pressed durations for both interior advancement and external customers. She got her BS in Optics from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. She currently works as a Panel member for the Arizona Technology Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley industry collection." We are actually unbelievably pleased to view Katie Schwertz identified along with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her dedication and impactful additions to the optics neighborhood," mentioned Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and Chief Marketing & Business Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to accelerating visual devices design and also impressive the newest generation of engineers embodies the development and also management we strive for at Edmund Optics.".