.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Award. She is actually identified for exceptional service to SPIE and also the optics neighborhood by means of work that advancements visual units style, interacts trainees, and shares the exhilaration of optics along with everyone.As an SPIE Senior Member, Katie is actually an active factor to the optics community, having actually shown at many associations as well as authored pair of publications with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics Rules of Thumb and Guidebook to Optomechanical Style as well as Evaluation. Her involvement with the institution reaches offering on association course boards, the Nominating and also Leadership Progression Committee, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Directors member. In addition, she has actually participated in the SPIE Education Board and the Sex Equity Commando, which aims to enhance equal opportunities as well as acknowledgment within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has dealt with numerous image resolution body designs, tolerancing, analyses, and prototype assessments in pressed timeframes for both inner progression and outside consumers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Institute of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently acts as a Board member for the Arizona Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley sector collection." Our company are actually surprisingly glad to see Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her commitment and impactful additions to the optics neighborhood," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and Main Advertising & Business Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to accelerating visual units concept as well as uplifting the future generation of designers shows the technology as well as leadership our experts strive for at Edmund Optics.".