.Katie Schwertz, Elder Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Honor. She is acknowledged for outstanding company to SPIE as well as the optics neighborhood with work that breakthroughs optical systems layout, interacts students, as well as allotments the pleasure of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Elder Participant, Katie is actually an energetic factor to the optics area, having shown at various conferences and authored 2 magazines with SPIE Press, featuring Photonics Rules of Thumb as well as Guidebook to Optomechanical Design and Analysis. Her involvement with the institution reaches providing on association program committees, the Nominating and also Management Development Board, and as a past SPIE Board of Directors member. In addition, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Learning Board and the Gender Equity Commando, which targets to improve equal opportunities and acknowledgment within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with various image resolution body concepts, tolerancing, reviews, and also model examinations in squeezed timeframes for both internal growth and outside clients. She obtained her BS in Optics from the Educational institution of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland business cluster." Our company are actually surprisingly happy to see Katie Schwertz acknowledged with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her devotion as well as impactful additions to the optics community," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel as well as Principal Marketing & Business Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to evolving visual units style and also uplifting the future generation of developers displays the technology and management our team strive for at Edmund Optics.".