.Katie Schwertz, Elderly Person Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been picked as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Honor. She is acknowledged for excellent solution to SPIE and also the optics community via work that breakthroughs visual devices design, involves trainees, and also allotments the excitement of optics along with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is an active contributor to the optics neighborhood, having actually provided at numerous events and authored pair of publications with SPIE Push, including Photonics Rules of Thumb and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Style as well as Study. Her involvement with the institution includes serving on conference program committees, the Nominating and also Management Advancement Board, and as a previous SPIE Panel of Supervisors participant. In addition, she has actually joined the SPIE Education Board and the Sex Equity Commando, which strives to improve level playing fields as well as recognition within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked with various imaging body styles, tolerancing, studies, and also prototype evaluations in pressed durations for both interior progression and also exterior customers. She received her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently acts as a Panel member for the Arizona Innovation Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley industry cluster." Our company are actually incredibly happy to see Katie Schwertz acknowledged with the SPIE President's Award for her commitment and also impactful payments to the optics community," stated Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board as well as Chief Marketing & Sales Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to accelerating optical systems design and also inspiring the future generation of developers displays the innovation and also leadership our experts pursue at Edmund Optics.".