For the first time, the Tampa Bay Engineers Week Banquet Committee is facilitating an Outreach Project in conjunction with the event. We are working with MOSI to help develop initial research for an Energy Center at the Science Center. This findings summary is an important one. MOSI’s Energy Center will be the first of its kind in the world. It will contain working model power plants up to six megawatts capacity. The Energy Center’s exhibition will be an interactive area to understand the history, contemporary and future possibilities of balancing and developing our energy resources. In order to start initial planning for this exhibition, the Tampa Bay Engineers Week Banquet committee has developed the Outreach research project to assist MOSI in their efforts. At the banquet, the findings from the Outreach project on the different forms of energy and alternative energy will be unveiled for the first to the public. Cutting edge research has been done on hot topics ranging from Solar Energy to Waste to Energy and much more! You won't want to miss our research learning about how we as Engineers Power the Future!

Additionally, awards will be 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.

The banquet is a combination of efforts between the societies that arranged in past years the Celebrate Engineering Banquet and the E-Week Banquet. The merger of these two events will bring together professionals in all fields from all around Tampa and Florida’s west coast.