.Katie Schwertz, Elder Manager of Optical Assemblies & Technology at Edmund Optics, has been picked as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President’s Honor. She is acknowledged for superior solution to SPIE and also the optics community with job that breakthroughs optical systems layout, involves trainees, and allotments the exhilaration of optics along with the general public.As an SPIE Senior Participant, Katie is actually an energetic contributor to the optics community, having actually presented at several associations and authored pair of publications along with SPIE Push, including Photonics General Rules and Guidebook to Optomechanical Design as well as Evaluation. Her involvement with the organization extends to serving on event plan boards, the Nominating as well as Leadership Advancement Board, and also as a past SPIE Board of Directors member.
Also, she has actually joined the SPIE Education Board and the Gender Equity Task Force, which strives to improve equal opportunities and awareness within the optics neighborhood.For Edmund Optics, Katie has worked with numerous image resolution body styles, tolerancing, studies, and also model analyses in squeezed durations for each inner development and also external clients. She received her BS in Optics coming from the College of Rochester’s Principle of Optics and her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona. She presently acts as a Board member for the Arizona Technology Council and Co-Chair of their Optics Valley sector set.” We are actually unbelievably honored to observe Katie Schwertz recognized along with the SPIE President’s Honor for her devotion and impactful payments to the optics area,” pointed out Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Board and Main Marketing & Marketing Officer at Edmund Optics.
“Her commitment to progressing visual bodies design and inspiring the next generation of engineers shows the technology and also management our company pursue at Edmund Optics.”.