History 150 years BOKU Vienna – Agricultural technology in the spotlight

Since the founding of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in 1872, 9 professors have guided the fortunes of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering. The testing station, founded in 1906/1907, developed into a machine and testing department, which came to an end with the founding of the Federal Testing and Research Institute for Agricultural Machines in 1946. In 1953, the Institute for Agricultural Machinery and Work Technology was created and expanded into the "Institute for Agricultural Technology and Energy Management" (1967). In 1992, the subject area was expanded to include energy and environmental technology. BOKU was restructured and the "Institute of Agricultural Engineering" became part of the Department of "Sustainable Agricultural Systems" in 2004. From 2011 onwards, new focal points "systems science" and the field of "smart farming technologies" were established. The establishment of the "Digitalization and Innovation Laboratory in Agricultural Sciences" at BOKU in 2019 was a first step.