.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Award. She is realized for exceptional company to SPIE and the optics area by means of job that advancements optical devices design, interacts students, and also allotments the pleasure of optics with everyone.As an SPIE Senior Member, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics area, having actually offered at various conferences and also authored two publications with SPIE Press, including Photonics Rules of Thumb as well as Field Guide to Optomechanical Concept as well as Study. Her involvement with the company reaches offering on conference plan boards, the Nominating and also Management Development Committee, and as a past SPIE Panel of Directors participant. Also, she has participated in the SPIE Education Committee and also the Sex Equity Task Force, which targets to boost level playing fields as well as acknowledgment within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has focused on a variety of imaging system concepts, tolerancing, analyses, and also prototype assessments in pressed timeframes for each inner growth and external clients. She obtained her BS in Optics from the Educational institution of Rochester's Institute of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences from the College of Arizona. She presently functions as a Panel member for the Arizona Innovation Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market bunch." Our company are very proud to see Katie Schwertz identified along with the SPIE President's Award for her commitment and also impactful additions to the optics neighborhood," claimed Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Panel and also Main Advertising And Marketing & Sales Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to accelerating optical systems design and inspiring the newest generation of engineers shows the advancement and leadership our team pursue at Edmund Optics.".