.Katie Schwertz, Senior Citizen Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Head of state's Award. She is recognized for exceptional solution to SPIE and the optics community via job that innovations visual devices layout, interacts students, as well as shares the pleasure of optics with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Participant, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics community, having actually provided at numerous associations and authored two publications with SPIE Press, featuring Photonics Rules of Thumb and also Guidebook to Optomechanical Concept and Study. Her involvement along with the organization extends to providing on association plan boards, the Nominating and also Leadership Growth Board, and as a past SPIE Board of Directors participant. Also, she has taken part in the SPIE Education Board as well as the Gender Equity Task Force, which aims to improve level playing fields and also recognition within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked on various image resolution device designs, tolerancing, studies, and model evaluations in compressed timeframes for each interior advancement and also exterior clients. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the College of Rochester's Institute of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She currently works as a Panel member for the Arizona Modern Technology Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley market set." Our team are actually extremely proud to see Katie Schwertz identified along with the SPIE President's Award for her devotion and impactful payments to the optics neighborhood," stated Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and Chief Marketing & Sales Police Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her dedication to progressing visual bodies design and also motivating the newest generation of engineers exhibits the advancement and leadership our experts pursue at Edmund Optics.".