.Katie Schwertz, Senior Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Honor. She is identified for outstanding company to SPIE as well as the optics community via work that developments optical systems design, interacts students, and shares the exhilaration of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Elder Participant, Katie is an energetic contributor to the optics neighborhood, having actually presented at many associations as well as authored two magazines with SPIE Push, consisting of Photonics Rules of Thumb and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Design and Study. Her involvement along with the organization includes providing on conference plan committees, the Nominating and Leadership Progression Board, and also as a past SPIE Panel of Supervisors member. Additionally, she has actually joined the SPIE Education And Learning Committee and also the Sex Equity Task Force, which strives to enrich equal opportunities and also awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked with several imaging system styles, tolerancing, evaluations, as well as prototype evaluations in squeezed durations for each internal growth as well as external customers. She got her BS in Optics from the Educational institution of Rochester's Institute of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the University of Arizona. She currently functions as a Board member for the Arizona Modern Technology Council as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley field bunch." Our company are actually incredibly pleased to find Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE President's Honor for her commitment and impactful additions to the optics community," claimed Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and also Main Advertising & Sales Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to accelerating visual units layout and also inspiring the newest generation of developers exemplifies the advancement as well as leadership our team pursue at Edmund Optics.".