Department of Agricultural Engineering was established in the town of. It was established in Sofia as an independent department at the Faculty of Zootechnics on the basis of the then existing general department "Mechanization of Agriculture" at the Faculty of Agronomy. The founder and first head of the department was Assoc. Eng. Nikola G. Stanishev. After that year the department grew and developed both in terms of staff and facilities. Qualified specialist lecturers have worked in the Department, whose scientific developments have found application in modern mechanised and high-tech agricultural and livestock production.