It is located on Wayne State's main campus in Detroit in a building shared with the Danto Engineering Development Center.

[2] The Wayne State University College of Engineering had its unofficial beginning in 1920, when co-founder Ernest Drake began teaching the first engineering courses that were a part of the university's chemistry program.

Professors Arthur R. Carr and Drake officially founded the college in 1933 and began with only four disciplines: chemical, electrical, mechanical and civil engineering.

The classes and the offices were in the Old Main building and several old houses within the neighborhood.

To date the College of Engineering has expanded to comprise 135 full-time faculty and 3,493 undergraduate and graduate students.