Danto Engineering Development Center is an academic learning center is attached to the College of Engineering building at Wayne State University. It is Located at 5050 Anthony Street in Detroit, Michigan on the Wayne State main campus, and it is across the street from the Physics Building. History The Marvin Danto Engineering Development Center at Wayne State University is an addition to the previous Engineering Building that is located on the main campus in Midtown Detroit. In late 2006, 89-year-old Wayne State College of Engineering alumnus and Detroit philanthropist Marvin L. Danto donated $ 3 million to augment state funds. These funds were the seed money the college needed to make the construction of the center possible. The rest of the funds needed came from the state and other private investors. In May 2007 Wayne State University broke ground on the $27.3 million engineering facility which at the time represented a whole states economy’s future based on biotech innovation, sustainable energy technology, and other high-tech industries. The engineering center was completed in the fall of 2008, 4 years before Marvin L. Danto’s death in 2012. The entire complex consists of of laboratories, lecture rooms, and classrooms. In April 2012 the Danto Engineering Development Center received the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver certification, which was given by the U.S. Green Building Council; Wayne State University in unveiled a plaque in recognition of this achievement. Overview The three-story building holds nano-science and alternative energy technology, educational programs, research programs in smart sensors (which received a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop and build a sensor to monitor the chemical pollutants in drinking water, micro-systems for artificial vision, and real-time cancer detection), and biotechnology. The building also provides engineering services for private companies. "The Danto center also [houses] a high-performance computing lab to study energy efficiency, funded in part with a grant of large mainframe computers from Sun Microsystems”. The building also holds the meeting place and offices for the Endowed Chair of Engineering Ventures, the Associate Dean of Engineering, the Wayne State University chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, which is an organization that guides students to consider a career as an entrepreneur, and the Engineering Student Faculty Board. In the center, students have their own studios to design, build and test projects and entries for engineering competitions. The Formula SAE racecar team was