.Katie Schwertz, Elderly Person Supervisor of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has actually been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President’s Award. She is actually identified for outstanding solution to SPIE and also the optics community by means of job that innovations optical units design, interacts students, as well as reveals the pleasure of optics along with the public.As an SPIE Elder Member, Katie is actually an active contributor to the optics community, having actually offered at numerous events and also authored 2 publications with SPIE Press, consisting of Photonics General Rules as well as Field Guide to Optomechanical Concept and also Review. Her interaction with the association encompasses providing on event system boards, the Nominating as well as Management Development Committee, and also as a past SPIE Board of Directors participant.
Also, she has actually taken part in the SPIE Education And Learning Committee as well as the Gender Equity Task Force, which strives to improve equal opportunities as well as awareness within the optics community.For Edmund Optics, Katie has actually worked on several image resolution device layouts, tolerancing, reviews, and model examinations in squeezed timeframes for each internal progression and outside customers. She obtained her BS in Optics coming from the University of Rochester’s Principle of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She currently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Technology Council and Co-Chair of their Optics Valley sector set.” Our experts are actually unbelievably glad to see Katie Schwertz identified with the SPIE President’s Award for her dedication and impactful payments to the optics area,” said Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel as well as Principal Marketing & Business Police Officer at Edmund Optics.
“Her dedication to accelerating visual systems design as well as uplifting the next generation of engineers shows the advancement and management our company strive for at Edmund Optics.”.