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...

President Yang Dan on the morning of April 26th met with a Chiba University delegation led by its Vice President, Makoto Watanabe.President Yang welcomed the delegation on behalf of the University and gave a brief introduction to the University’s history, discipline development, talent training and global strategy, especially the innovative measures such as the construction of International Ca...

People’s Daily released the list of Representatives of Awardees of the National Scholarship for College Students on May 4. Yang Peijie, an undergraduate of 2023 from the School of Transportation and Logistics, has been selected as a representative from the 60,000 awardees for his excellent academic performance. Yang Peijie is the top one among the seniors at the Programme of Traffic and Transp...

​On the morning of May 6th, the on-site promotion of Chengdu-Chongqing (Xinglong Lake) Comprehensive Science Center & Major Sci-tech Infrastructure Center was held at the construction site of the CFQS. The Center has a core area of approximately 100 square kilometers around Xinglong Lake in the Chengdu Tianfu New Area. At present, Sichuan Province has six provincial-level major scientific and ...

Papers published in Advanced Materials, the internationally renowned journal with an impact factor of 32.086, present top scientific research achievements in the fields of nanomaterials, biomaterials, materials physics, materials chemistry, engineering materials, etc.In recent years, Prof. Zhou Shaobing’s team has been engaging in the research of polymeric nanocarriers for drug delivery and ha...

National Railway Administration of People’s Republic of China held a symposium on March 22, and inaugurated 26 included in the second batch of railway industry science and technology innovation bases.The University’s three key laboratories, i.e., the ones of Advanced Structural Materials for Railway Industry, Intelligent Traction Power Supply for Railway Industry, and Disaster Prevention and ...

According to the “2022 Analysis Report on National University Students Competitions” released by China Association of Higher Education on March 22, Southwest Jiaotong University hits a new record high and ranks third on the Undergraduate Competition List (Undergraduate, TOP100) with 478 awards and a total score of 94.26 points, up 2 places from last year.To help students comprehend more thoro...

Prof. Xu Yi’s team from the Department of Metal Materials at the School of Materials Science and Engineering recently published a paper entitled “Self-Circulating Adsorption-Desorption Structure of Non-Noble High-Entropy Alloy Electrocatalyst Facilitates Efficient Water Splitting” in ACS Sustainable Chemistry＆Engineering (IF: 9.224), a world-leading category A journal in the field of engine...