.Katie Schwertz, Senior Manager of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Award. She is realized for exceptional solution to SPIE and also the optics community through job that advances visual bodies style, engages trainees, and also shares the pleasure of optics with the general public.As an SPIE Elder Member, Katie is actually an energetic contributor to the optics community, having provided at countless conferences as well as authored 2 magazines with SPIE Press, featuring Photonics Guidelines and Guidebook to Optomechanical Style and Review. Her involvement with the organization encompasses serving on association course boards, the Nominating as well as Management Growth Committee, and as a previous SPIE Board of Supervisors participant. Additionally, she has taken part in the SPIE Education Committee and the Gender Equity Commando, which targets to boost equal opportunities and awareness within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually focused on a variety of imaging system styles, tolerancing, studies, and also prototype examinations in pressed timeframes for each interior progression and also outside consumers. She obtained her BS in Optics from the College of Rochester's Principle of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. She presently works as a Board member for the Arizona Innovation Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley field collection." We are actually exceptionally glad to see Katie Schwertz identified with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her dedication and also impactful contributions to the optics neighborhood," claimed Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel and Principal Advertising & Business Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing visual systems style and impressive the future generation of designers embodies the innovation as well as management our team pursue at Edmund Optics.".