.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been actually chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Honor. She is recognized for excellent service to SPIE as well as the optics neighborhood via work that breakthroughs optical units concept, interacts students, and also reveals the excitement of optics with the public.As an SPIE Elder Participant, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics neighborhood, having shown at countless conferences and authored pair of magazines along with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics Guidelines as well as Guidebook to Optomechanical Concept and also Evaluation. Her engagement along with the company encompasses serving on event system boards, the Nominating and Management Progression Board, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Directors member. In addition, she has actually participated in the SPIE Education And Learning Board and the Sex Equity Task Force, which aims to enrich level playing fields and awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has focused on a variety of imaging device layouts, tolerancing, evaluations, and also prototype evaluations in squeezed durations for both interior progression as well as external clients. She acquired her BS in Optics from the Educational institution of Rochester's Principle of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She currently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Innovation Authorities and Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market collection." Our company are actually very honored to observe Katie Schwertz acknowledged with the SPIE President's Honor for her commitment and also impactful additions to the optics community," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and also Main Advertising & Sales Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to advancing optical units design as well as uplifting the next generation of engineers exhibits the development and also management our experts pursue at Edmund Optics.".