The international journal Railway Engineering Science (RES) sponsored by Southwest Jiaotong University won the first impact factor of JIF=6. 3 on June 28th, according to the 2023 Journal Citation ReportsTM (JCR) officially released by Clarivate Analytics. According to JCI, RES ranks 14th among 67 journals in the disciplinary category of “TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY”, a core collectio...

On the morning of July 12, President YANG Dan and Vice President YAO Faming of Southwest Jiaotong University, met with the delegation of the University of Nairobi (UoN) led by Prof. Stephen Kiama Gitahi, President of the University.Yang extended a warm welcome to the delegation and acquainted them with a brief introduction to SWJTU, including its long history, cutting-edge disciplines, talent t...

Recently, a paper entitled “Integrated Sensing and Communication in an Optical Fibre” from the research team of the Center for Information Photonics and Communications at the School of Information Science and Technology of the University, was featured on the cover of Light: Science & Applications (impact factor: 20.257), a top international periodical in the field of optics and one of the Nat...

The 2023 ICSA China Conference was held at Chengdu, Sichuan from June 30 to July 3.(ICSA) and hosted by the School of Mathematics of SWJTU in collaboration with the Sichuan Association for Applied Statistics. More than 1,000 statistical experts and scholars, teachers and students from universities at home and abroad attended the conference. Over 260 overseas scholars, 50 chief editors and deput...

Prof. GAO Feng’s research team from the School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, recently published online a paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (IF =16.823), the internationally top journal in the field of natural medicine chemistry, and this paper unveiled the isolation and identification, biomimetic total synthesis and neuroprotective effects of an...

Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with RWTH Aachen University in Germany, a delegation from Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) led by YAO Faming, Vice President, visited colleges and universities in Germany and Belgium from June 6th to 9th to further develop its partnerships with top universities in Europe.From June 6th to 7th, the delegation visited Technische Universit...

On June 15th, more than 200,000 Chinese and foreign books from 56 countries and regions were exhibited at the 29th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), the world's second largest international book fair, at the China National Convention Center. On the next morning, in the Sichuan Publishing Exhibition Hall of the Center, SWJTU Press and Singapore World Scientific Publishing Company launched ...

On June 5, the delegation led by Vice-President YAO Faming visited RWTH Aachen University in Germany. As one of the leading universities in Europe in the field of science and technology, RWTH Aachen University has secured seven Nobel Prizes in the past 150 years since its foundation in 1870. Ranking 99th in the Times Higher Education (THE), it is also a member of the Union of German Universitie...

The 3rd International Workshop on Evacuated Tube Maglev Transport, one of the parallel forums of the 2023 World Transport Convention (WTC2023), was held on June 15 at the China Optics Valley Convention & Exhibition Center in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and co-hosted by the Academic Sub-Committee of the WTC, Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), and China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group CO., ...

The morning of June 19 saw the visit of Prof. Andre Jones, Vice-Chancellor and President of Brunel University London (Brunel), to SWJTU. The two universities signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in educational research and had in-depth discussions on future collaboration.On behalf of SWJTU, YAO Faming, vice president of SWJTU, warmly welcomed the delegation and acquainted them w...

The Institute of Human-machine Environmental System Design affiliated to the School of Design won two awards in the iF DESIGN AWARD 2023 for its works “Sichuan Mountain Gear Rail Scenic Railway Train” and “Tianjin Smart Train” among nearly 11,000 entries from 56 countries or regions worldwide, and received for the first time international awards since the School of Design has been founded

From April 21st to 24th, the final of the 6th National Teaching Competition for Young Teachers in Colleges and Universities was held in Tsinghua University, and the contestants were 158 first-place teachers in various disciplines from 121 colleges and universities. Xuan Huang from the School of Architecture representing Sichuan Province ranked fourth among the 32 teachers in the engineering gro...