.Katie Schwertz, Senior Manager of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Award. She is actually recognized for impressive company to SPIE and the optics area via job that developments optical devices style, involves trainees, and also portions the enthusiasm of optics with the public.As an SPIE Elderly Person Participant, Katie is an active factor to the optics area, having provided at numerous events as well as authored 2 publications along with SPIE Push, featuring Photonics Guidelines and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Style and Analysis. Her engagement along with the company reaches serving on association course committees, the Nominating and also Management Advancement Board, and as a past SPIE Panel of Supervisors participant. In addition, she has actually joined the SPIE Education Board as well as the Sex Equity Commando, which intends to enhance equal opportunities and also awareness within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually focused on numerous imaging system layouts, tolerancing, studies, and model analyses in squeezed durations for both interior development and outside customers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Principle of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the University of Arizona. She presently functions as a Panel participant for the Arizona Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland field bunch." Our team are actually unbelievably happy to observe Katie Schwertz identified with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her dedication as well as impactful additions to the optics area," said Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and also Chief Advertising & Sales Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to accelerating visual systems design and also motivating the next generation of designers displays the technology and management our experts strive for at Edmund Optics.".