.Katie Schwertz, Senior Manager of Optical Assemblies & Modern Technology at Edmund Optics, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Award. She is actually recognized for outstanding solution to SPIE and the optics neighborhood via job that developments optical systems layout, involves trainees, as well as portions the enthusiasm of optics along with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Member, Katie is an active factor to the optics neighborhood, having provided at several conferences and authored two magazines with SPIE Push, including Photonics General Rules and also Field Guide to Optomechanical Concept and Evaluation. Her interaction with the association encompasses offering on event program committees, the Nominating and also Management Advancement Committee, and also as a previous SPIE Board of Directors participant. In addition, she has joined the SPIE Education Committee and the Sex Equity Commando, which aims to improve equal opportunities as well as acknowledgment within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked on numerous imaging unit styles, tolerancing, evaluations, as well as prototype analyses in pressed timeframes for both inner advancement as well as exterior clients. She acquired her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She currently acts as a Board member for the Arizona Technology Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland market collection." Our company are actually exceptionally happy to find Katie Schwertz acknowledged along with the SPIE Head of state's Honor for her commitment and impactful additions to the optics neighborhood," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and Chief Advertising & Marketing Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her devotion to progressing visual bodies style and also inspiring the newest generation of developers shows the technology as well as management we pursue at Edmund Optics.".