.Katie Schwertz, Elder Manager of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Honor. She is recognized for exceptional company to SPIE and the optics community via work that developments visual units design, involves students, and reveals the excitement of optics with everyone.As an SPIE Elder Member, Katie is actually an energetic factor to the optics community, having actually presented at various events as well as authored 2 publications with SPIE Press, including Photonics Guidelines as well as Field Guide to Optomechanical Layout and also Evaluation. Her engagement with the association reaches providing on association program boards, the Nominating as well as Management Progression Committee, and as a past SPIE Board of Directors member. In addition, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Learning Committee and also the Gender Equity Task Force, which intends to enrich level playing fields and awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has focused on a variety of image resolution system designs, tolerancing, studies, and also prototype examinations in compressed timeframes for both internal growth and exterior consumers. She got her BS in Optics from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics and also her MS in Optical Sciences from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She currently serves as a Board member for the Arizona Technology Council as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland market collection." We are actually unbelievably glad to observe Katie Schwertz recognized with the SPIE President's Honor for her commitment and also impactful payments to the optics area," stated Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel as well as Principal Advertising & Business Policeman at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing visual units layout as well as impressive the newest generation of engineers exhibits the development as well as management our team strive for at Edmund Optics.".