The Institute of Logistics of the University of Miskolc (and its ancestors) is dealing with the education and research related to material handling from 60 years, so the knowledge which is used to develop curricula for the subjects is proved and suitable. Staff of the Institute uses advanced devices to present the planning methods and demonstrate the operation of different handling machines, handling systems and other logistic processes. Unfortunately, the economic changes of the last decades required significant changings in the education structure and curricula of the logistic courses, and also in the research activities of the Institute. Beside it, to follow the development and new challenges of the advanced logistic environment, many new, computer aided methods and processes had to be applied. In this paper we summarize the history of the logistic education in Miskolc and draw the actual state and new challenges of the Institute of Logistics.