.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been decided on as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Award. She is actually realized for exceptional company to SPIE and also the optics area by means of work that innovations optical devices layout, engages trainees, and also portions the pleasure of optics with everyone.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics community, having actually shown at countless events and also authored two publications along with SPIE Push, including Photonics Rules of Thumb and Field Guide to Optomechanical Style as well as Evaluation. Her engagement along with the organization reaches offering on conference program committees, the Nominating as well as Leadership Growth Board, and as a past SPIE Panel of Directors participant. In addition, she has actually joined the SPIE Learning Committee and also the Sex Equity Commando, which strives to enhance equal opportunities as well as acknowledgment within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked on numerous imaging device concepts, tolerancing, evaluations, and prototype assessments in compressed timeframes for both internal advancement and outside customers. She obtained her BS in Optics from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences from the College of Arizona. She presently acts as a Panel participant for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland industry set." We are astonishingly pleased to see Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE President's Award for her commitment and also impactful payments to the optics neighborhood," pointed out Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and also Principal Marketing & Sales Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to evolving optical systems concept and motivating the newest generation of designers exhibits the development and also management our company pursue at Edmund Optics.".