.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Manager of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Honor. She is recognized for superior service to SPIE and also the optics neighborhood by means of job that developments visual bodies layout, interacts pupils, and allotments the enthusiasm of optics with the general public.As an SPIE Elder Participant, Katie is actually an energetic factor to the optics neighborhood, having actually presented at countless associations and also authored 2 publications along with SPIE Push, consisting of Photonics Rules of Thumb as well as Guidebook to Optomechanical Design as well as Study. Her involvement along with the company encompasses providing on event course boards, the Nominating as well as Management Development Committee, and also as a previous SPIE Board of Directors participant. In addition, she has actually participated in the SPIE Learning Committee as well as the Gender Equity Task Force, which targets to enrich level playing fields and also awareness within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with different imaging unit concepts, tolerancing, analyses, and prototype examinations in squeezed durations for both internal growth as well as exterior customers. She acquired her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Principle of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She presently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Council as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland field collection." We are incredibly happy to see Katie Schwertz recognized along with the SPIE President's Award for her devotion and also impactful additions to the optics neighborhood," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and Principal Advertising And Marketing & Business Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing visual bodies layout and inspiring the next generation of engineers exemplifies the technology as well as management we pursue at Edmund Optics.".