On June 9, Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) and Chengdu Municipal People’s Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement, namely Agreement on Comprehensively Strengthening the Strategic Cooperation Between the Municipality and University, aiming at an all-round cooperation in aspects of scientific and technological innovation, talent training and industrial development.An economic c...

Southwest Jiaotong University published recently its first issue of Railway Engineering Science (RES).RES is edited by Academician Zhai Wanming, the Chief Editor, together with 33 internationally renowned scholars in the field of rail transit, focusing on basic engineering science and emerging technologies of rail transit and covering the frontier technologies of rail transit in areas like high...

10 alumni of Southwest Jiaotong University were recently honoured as “The Most Beautiful Railway Sci-Tech Personnel”, accounting for one third of the total number of winners throughout China.The selection and nomination throughout China was sponsored by China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway), and the China Railway Society set up a panel of experts and a selection committee to pic...

On May 30, 2020, Prof. Zhang Weihua and Prof. Wang Kaiyun of Southwest Jiaotong University won the National Pioneer Innovation Awards presented jointly by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the China Association for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and scho...

​27 May, 2020 saw the University of Leeds’s prestigious Partnership Awards move online for the first time in an online ceremony presented via Twitter. The School of the Year went to SWJTU-Joint School, a collaboration between the Southwest Jiaotong University and the University of Leeds.Tom Ward, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Student Education) of the University of Leeds, announced at the online Pa...

Over 7,000 graduates of 2020 at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) will complete their defense for their graduation design (thesis) before June 5. ​"What methods are employed in the course of face recognition?" asked Prof. Yang Dan, President of the University, in meeting room 272 of the administration building on Xipu Campus on the morning of May, 28, at the on-line defense of Xiao Ziyang,...

Recently, a research team led by Associate Professor Ni Yuxiang, a young scholar at the School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), has successively published two papers in Physical Review B, reporting their progress in the research on the mechanism of nano-structure manipulating phonon thermal transport in materials.Physical Review B, published by the Amer...

Southwest Jiaotong University's Dynamic Simulation Platform for Polymorphic Coupling Rail Transit is officially launched, which upon completion will herald the future of ultra-high-speed rail transit technology.On the morning of May 20th, the Dynamic Simulation Platform for Polymorphic Coupling Rail Transit was inaugurated at our University. It is the largest scientific experimental device in t...

​On May 15, 2020, Professor Zhang Xu's team at the School of Mechanics published a paper online entitled "Cyclic plasticity of an interstitial high-entropy alloy: Experiments, crystal plasticity modeling, and simulations" in the top journal of Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, presenting a birthday gift to Southwest Jiaotong University on its 124th anniversary. In recent years, t...

Gu Yuhan, an undergraduate of 2017 majoring in Vehicle Engineering in theSchool of Mechanical Engineering (SWJTU), published a paper entitled “A Goblet-like Non-linear Electromagnetic Generator for Planar Multi-directional Vibration Energy Harvesting” as the first author in the top international journal Applied Energy. Applied Energy is the top flagship journal in the field of energy engineer...

Yuan Yun, a master candidate of the School of Economics and Management, published a paper on line in Nature as the third author following his participation in the research of predicting the pandemic geographical distribution and transmission trend based on the actual population flow.Yuan Yun, under the guidance of his supervisor and in collaboration with several professors at home and abroad, p...

Professor Sun Zhanbo’s team is currently conducting research on green transportation and connected automated vehicles (CAVs), aiming to facilitate more efficient, greener, and smarter next-generation transportation.Recently, CCTV reported on Professor Sun, a young professor of our university, and his research achievements on green transportation and connected automated vehicles. In the intervi...