​Southwest Jiaotong University and Northwestern University of the United States signed a cooperation agreement on the delivery of the Double Master’s Degree Program in Traffic and Transportation Engineering and the promotion of academic exchanges.Enrollment of candidates will officially start in April, 2020. Each year, a maximum of 5 students from the School of Transportation and Logistics wi...

After the outbreak of COVID-19, overseas alumni have lent a helping hand to the University in fighting against the pandemic.Japan Alumni Association helped procuring masks. Canada Alumni Association joined forces with the Canadian Chinese Society of 100 (CCS100) and Canadian “World Association of Chinese Doctors” to raise funds for the pandemic fighting frontier.On February 8, Han Zhiyong, a ...

The spread of COVID-19 has seriously affected the normal life of people. Early detection and isolation of potentially susceptible population can effectively control the spread of the virus.Recently, a team led by Professor Li Tianrui from the School of Information Science and Technology of the University and JD iCity have jointly proposed a novel solution for the measurement of spatio-temporal ...

From April 9 to April 17, the University organized a mass mid-term inspection on all the 2020 undergraduate graduation projects (theses). Prof. Feng Xiaoyun, Vice President, and experts from the university-level supervision team partook and supervised this inspection.To improve the overall quality of graduation projects (theses), the university had actively formulated the mid-term inspection pr...

During the period of pandemic prevention and control, the University’s first online dissertation defense was staged on March 20, 2020 for Zhuang Xu, a doctoral candidate from the School of Information Science and Technology.The whole process of this defense conforms to the General Requirements for Online Dissertation Defense of Southwest Jiaotong University During the Pandemic Prevention and C...

From November 21 to 30, 2019, 20 master’s and 4 doctoral students of SWJTU visited Singapore on the"Double First-Class" Students Global Competency Enhancement Program and Jianhou Postgraduate Academic Literacy Enhancing Overseas Practice Program.During the 10-day activity, focusing on the theme of "Urban Transportation Management In Singapore", students completed course learning at Nanyang Tec...

On November 4, 2019, the 16th international Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) rang the curtain down in Boston, USA. Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) established a team with Georgia State University (GSU) for the first time to compete with 375 representative teams (totaling over 5,000 teachers and students) from universities such as Harvard University, Stanford University, U...

​The award ceremony of the "2019 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award" was solemnly held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on January 10, 2020. Two achievements led and completed by Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) won the awards. The ProjectKey Technologies for Construction and Safe Operation of Large-scale Tunnel Groups on Expressways in Complicated and Dangerous M...

Recently, Chinese Academy of Sciences Academician Zhai Wanming published his monographVehicle-Track Coupled Dynamics: Theory and Applications in the global market via Springer, a world known scientific and technological journal and publisher.The book systematically introduces the theory system, modeling approach, numerical implementation method, filed test and typical engineering application ca...

Recently, the Institute of Railway Research (IRR) led by Professor Simon Iwnicki at the University of Huddersfield, Distinguished Alumnus of Southwest Jiaotong University and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, received the 2019 Queen's Anniversary Prize, one of the most coveted honors in British Higher Education, for its outstanding innovation in railway industry, after scrutiny by the...