The keynote speaker Wit Ostrenko, President and CEO of MOSI  presented the findings from the TBEWB Outreach project with MOSI on the different forms of alternative energy. This research will provide the foundation for MOSI to build an Energy Center in the coming years. The Energy Center will be an interactive area to understanding the history, contemporary and future possibilities of balancing and developing our energy resources. MOSI’s Energy center will be the first of its kind in the world! It will play an important role in helping to educate our engineers of the future.

  The Tampa Bay Engineers Week Banquet enables engineering societies of the Tampa area to come together and recognize the outstanding achievements of our Engineers, Science Teachers, Math Teachers, and Students in our community for their outstanding achievements.  Awards were  presented to outstanding engineers in each discipline, as well as local engineering students excelling in their engineering related studies. The banquet also features the Lignell Awards. These awards, named after a former Chairman for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), are given to local High School educators who are performing outstanding work in the instruction of the STEM topics (science, technology, engineering and math). The organizers of the event recognize the important role these individuals play in encouraging students to pursue technological degrees in college.