Sponsored by the Office of International Cooperation and Exchanges in collaboration with Student International Affairs Center of the School of Information Science and Technology, the First International Exchange Week was launched at SWJTU from December 7 to 11, providing a channel for students to better understand the university's study abroad programs, the strengths and distinctive features of...

Recently, the University joins the International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme on the Stellarator-Heliotron Concept (IEA SH-TCP) as the Chinese contracting party upon the approval by the Department of International Cooperation under the Ministry of Science and Technology.                                                            IEA SH-TCP is an international science and tec...

On December 10, Yang Qian, a doctoral graduate from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of the University (now a postdoctoral student at the University of Manchester, UK) published a paper entitled “Capillary Condensation under Atomic-scale Confinement” in the top international academic journal Nature (Nature, 2020, 588, 250–253,https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2978-1) as the f...

On November 30th, SWJTU’s 50 courses were accredited by the Ministry of Education as National First-class Undergraduate Courses, ranking the University No. 17 among all the candidates, and the University reached top among the “First-class Discipline” ones with its 50 courses included in the first batch officially published.The national first-class undergraduate courses of the University incl...

​In the early morning of November 23, 2020, Beijing time, the joint team "GA State SW Jiaotong" established by the School of Life Science and Engineering of the University in collaboration with Georgia State University won the Silver Medal at the 17th International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM). A total of 256 teams with over 5,000 teachers and students from more than 40 co...

Nature Communications Materials published the research results on aluminum alloys of Yingbo Zhang's team from School of Materials Science and Engineering at the University.Zhang Yingbo’s team proposed an improved Efficient Global Optimization (EGO) algorithm based on Kriging model, and applied it to the composition optimization of 7xxx alloy. A 950MPa 7xxx alloy with zinc content less than 7wt...

The all-English academic periodical Biosurface and Biotribology (BSBT), sponsored by the University, was included into the catalogue of Chinese high-quality Sci-Tech periodical in mechanical engineering field and rated as a level T2 journal, the one of renown both at home and abroad, according to the latest Mechanical Engineering Classified Catalogue of High-Quality Sci-Tech Periodicals release...

Wang Yufeng, associate researcher at the Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering of the University, won the 2019 Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR) at the 18th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction/the 4th Gu Dezhen Lecture held at the Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing on Nove...

On November 28th, Guo Xueqing, a postgraduate student in Translation and Interpreting at the School of Foreign Languages, won the grand prize at the 2nd National Speaking Competition on Area Studies held in Zhuhai, Guangdong. Han Qinru, a master candidate of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (MTCSOL) from the same school, won the award of excellence. Zhang Xi, the tutor, was named...

Zheng Yu, an outstanding alumnus of the University, was elected as an IEEE Fellow 2021 for his prominent contribution in spatio-temporal data mining and urban computing on November 25, 2020. Among the 282 new elects from the world, 75 are Chinese scholars, accounting for 26.6% of the total.About Zheng YuZheng Yu studied at the Programme of Mechanical Engineering and Automation of the University...

On November 21 and 22, the final of the 9th "China Railway Industry Cup" National College Students Mechanical Innovation Design Competition was held on Xipu Campus of Southwest Jiaotong University. Students from different universities congregate and compete every two years at the Event, demonstrating the highest level of mechanical design ability of college students in China.Focusing on “Smart...

The unveiling ceremony for the Joint Research Center of Belt and Road International Organizations Science and Technologies was held on 17 November.  Song Jun, Chairman of China Science and Technology Association (CAST), Liu Yang, the Director of the International Liaison Office of China Science and Technology Association (CAST), Yang Dan, the President of Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), ...