.Katie Schwertz, Senior Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President’s Award. She is actually acknowledged for superior solution to SPIE as well as the optics community via job that innovations visual units concept, engages trainees, and allotments the exhilaration of optics along with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Member, Katie is an energetic contributor to the optics neighborhood, having presented at countless conferences and also authored pair of publications with SPIE Press, consisting of Photonics Rules of Thumb as well as Field Guide to Optomechanical Layout as well as Analysis. Her engagement along with the association encompasses providing on conference course boards, the Nominating as well as Management Development Board, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Directors participant.
Furthermore, she has joined the SPIE Education And Learning Committee and also the Sex Equity Task Force, which aims to improve level playing fields as well as awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked with a variety of image resolution unit designs, tolerancing, reviews, as well as model assessments in squeezed timeframes for both interior development as well as exterior clients. She obtained her BS in Optics from the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently works as a Panel member for the Arizona Innovation Authorities and also Co-Chair of their Optics Lowland industry cluster.” Our experts are actually unbelievably proud to find Katie Schwertz realized along with the SPIE President’s Award for her commitment and impactful contributions to the optics area,” mentioned Marisa Edmund, Chairman of the Board and also Main Marketing & Marketing Officer at Edmund Optics.
“Her commitment to progressing visual units design as well as uplifting the next generation of designers embodies the development and also leadership our team strive for at Edmund Optics.”.