.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Honor. She is recognized for excellent service to SPIE and also the optics neighborhood by means of work that developments optical units layout, engages students, and also allotments the enthusiasm of optics along with the general public.As an SPIE Elder Member, Katie is an energetic factor to the optics community, having provided at countless associations and also authored two magazines with SPIE Press, featuring Photonics General Rules and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Layout and also Analysis. Her involvement with the institution extends to serving on event program boards, the Nominating as well as Management Progression Board, and as a past SPIE Panel of Supervisors participant. In addition, she has joined the SPIE Learning Committee as well as the Sex Equity Task Force, which intends to enrich level playing fields and also recognition within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually serviced various imaging device concepts, tolerancing, evaluations, and also prototype analyses in pressed durations for each inner development and also outside consumers. She got her BS in Optics coming from the College of Rochester's Principle of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the University of Arizona. She presently acts as a Board participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market bunch." Our company are actually incredibly pleased to find Katie Schwertz acknowledged along with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her dedication as well as impactful contributions to the optics neighborhood," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and also Chief Marketing & Business Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to evolving visual devices layout and also uplifting the newest generation of designers shows the innovation as well as leadership we pursue at Edmund Optics.".