India, Nov. 4 -- The design of a university facility can influence interactions among students, researchers, and faculty. The Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center at Stanford University was created as a common facility for engineering education and research. It is named after Jen-Hsun Huang, the co-founder of NVIDIA and a Stanford alumnus. A $30 million donation from Huang and his wife, Lori, made construction of the facility possible. According to Stanford University, the facility housed more than 270 people when it was dedicated in October 2010.

Dedicated on October 5, 2010, the center became a landmark in Stanford's new Science and Engineering Quad. Huang, who graduated with an MSEE degree from Stanford in 1992, funded the building to pr...