.Katie Schwertz, Elder Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Honor. She is actually acknowledged for superior company to SPIE and also the optics area through work that breakthroughs visual units design, involves students, as well as shares the enthusiasm of optics along with everyone.As an SPIE Elder Participant, Katie is actually an active factor to the optics area, having actually shown at numerous events and authored two publications with SPIE Press, consisting of Photonics Guidelines and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Concept as well as Study. Her involvement with the company includes offering on conference course boards, the Nominating as well as Leadership Development Committee, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Supervisors participant. Furthermore, she has actually joined the SPIE Learning Committee and the Sex Equity Task Force, which intends to enhance equal opportunities and also recognition within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked on numerous image resolution device layouts, tolerancing, reviews, as well as prototype evaluations in compressed durations for each inner progression and outside clients. She got her BS in Optics coming from the Educational institution of Rochester's Principle of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She presently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Council as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley field cluster." Our company are actually astonishingly honored to find Katie Schwertz identified along with the SPIE Head of state's Award for her commitment and also impactful contributions to the optics area," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel as well as Chief Advertising And Marketing & Business Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing visual devices style and also motivating the future generation of developers exemplifies the advancement as well as management our company strive for at Edmund Optics.".