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Wayne State gets $407.8 million gift

Sept. 19, 2007
Donation to engineering program is largest ever at the university.

Wayne State University in Detroit is receiving a $407.8-million gift of software and equipment for its College of Engineering. The donation from Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE), a consortium that includes General Motors Corp., EDS, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens UGS PLM Software and Sun Microsystems, is the largest-ever donation to Wayne State and will enable students to learn on the same software and equipment used by GM engineers.

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