MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A Garmin International official has donated $1 million to the Kansas State College of Engineering.

The university announced Friday that the gift from Min Kao, co-founder and executive chairman of Garmin Ltd., based in Olathe. The money will be used for four new laboratories at a building addition at the university’s engineering college.

Kao has previously donated more than $1 million to the College of Engineering to support electrical engineering and computer science scholarships and improvements to the engineering buildings on campus.

He is a member of the Kansas State University Foundation’s Presidents Club and the College of Engineering’s Seaton Society.