Acta Scientiarum Polonorum

The paper presents the history of scientifi c and educational system development at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Warsaw University of Life Sciences in the fi eld of technical disciplines, from land reclamation to civil engineering. It was described how the organizational structure of departments of the Faculty was changing in time. Conducting teaching and research staff development and research activities in the discipline civil engineering were also discussed. The professional profiles of the founders, leaders and number of other distinguished civil engineering scientists, who have been successfully leading the Faculty for the last 70 years, were presented. The academic resources and the most important results of scientific research, international cooperation, as well as cooperation with practice, research and administrative institutions were also described in the paper.