.Katie Schwertz, Senior Manager of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Honor. She is realized for excellent company to SPIE and also the optics area through work that developments visual bodies concept, interacts trainees, and allotments the enthusiasm of optics with everyone.As an SPIE Elderly Person Participant, Katie is actually an energetic factor to the optics neighborhood, having actually presented at countless associations and authored pair of magazines with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics Guidelines and Guidebook to Optomechanical Style and also Review. Her engagement with the institution encompasses offering on association course committees, the Nominating and also Leadership Development Committee, and also as a past SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Additionally, she has taken part in the SPIE Education Committee and the Sex Equity Task Force, which strives to enrich equal opportunities as well as awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with various image resolution system styles, tolerancing, evaluations, and also model assessments in squeezed timeframes for each interior advancement and exterior customers. She got her BS in Optics from the University of Rochester's Principle of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences from the College of Arizona. She currently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland field set." We are surprisingly honored to see Katie Schwertz recognized with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her devotion as well as impactful contributions to the optics area," mentioned Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel and also Main Marketing & Business Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to accelerating visual units design as well as inspiring the future generation of designers embodies the development as well as leadership we pursue at Edmund Optics.".