In honor of Engineer’s Week 2025, the UH Engineering Alumni Association (EAA) will host their Industry Awards Night program on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. The E-Week reception celebrates National Engineer’s Week by recognizing top-achieving current UH Engineering students and connecting them to corporate and community sponsors through selected awards.
Cullen graduate and Chief Delivery Officer for Gaine Technology, LLC Kelvin King will present the reception’s keynote address.
As a native Houstonian and first-generation college graduate, having “a top-tier engineering school close to home” made attending the University of Houston an “easy decision” for King.
“I chose electrical engineering because I had a passion to learn more about software. The engineer in me decided that it would be better to understand the internals of computing that make software work, so the computer engineering option within Cullen’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department seemed like the perfect fit,” he said.
“I had a great experience overall at UH. My participation in NSBE and PROMES was foundational to my success and enjoyment of the undergraduate experience.”
King now oversees onboarding, implementation, and support for Gaine’s products and services as Chief Delivery Officer, with his team focusing on understanding their customers’ business requirements and helping them leverage Gaine’s health data management platform solutions for optimal value.
“I ultimately view myself as a builder, so helping companies scale from early-stage development to become significant industry players gives me a lot of fulfillment. It’s the perfect combination of solving a puzzle and knowing you’ve done something that makes the world a better place,” he said.
Since the inception of the Engineer’s Week Reception, the EAA has raised over $480,000 in scholarship awards for UH Engineering students and largely credits this success to the generous support of corporate and community sponsors.
Though the award application deadline has passed, interested students are encouraged to RSVP to attend the reception to hear more from keynote speaker Kelvin King as well as to take advantage of corporate and community networking opportunities over hors d’oeuvres and headshot opportunities.