Decorated with two Gold Awards and two Silver Awards, the new energy team led by Professor Chen Weirong from the School of Electrical Engineering at the University outshined their fellow participants at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva 2021 in March. Among the University’s four winning projects, the ones of Fuel Cell Hybrid Power Tramway and High-power and High Perform...

“Sports, Technology and Intelligent Life”, one of the first interdisciplinary innovative courses at the University, was acclaimed as a teaching case of major breakthroughs and included in Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning published by Princeton University Press recently.Accredited as one of the first batch of National First-class Courses, “Sports, Technology and Intelligent ...

After a journey of around 8000 km, on March 3rd, 2021, the precious collection of books donated by the late German Prof. Dr. Werner Keller reached its designated  destination at the Library on Xipu campus, Southwest Jiaotong University.  The late Professor. Dr. Werner Keller was a famous Goethe researcher, former chairman of the International Goethe Institute, and former director of Germanic La...

​Zhai Wanming, Chair Professor, Dean of Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Chairman of Academic Committee of Southwest Jiaotong University, was elected as an international member of National Academy of Engineering 2021 for his contributions to the design and operation of high-speed rail transportation networks on February 9, 2021, EST of United States of America. A total of 129 engineer...

​China’s first hydrogen fuel cell hybrid locomotive rolled off the production line on January 27, 2021, marking a major step forward in hydrogen fuel cell technology for rail transit in China. The locomotive is jointly developed by Southwest Jiaotong University and China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation Datong Co., Ltd. and equipped with the fuel cell high power generating system designed by...

Southwest Jiaotong University recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), a world-famous university in Dresden, Germany. Four schools at SWJTU, including the School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, and School of Transportation and Logistics, have established "many-to-one...

China Railway Society published recently the winners list of the "Science and Technology Award of China Railway Society in 2020", and 28 projects of the University were included, among which the University acted as the leader in 3 first and 2 second prize projects and participated in 4 grand, 7 first, 6 second and 6 third prize projects.Professor Gao Shibin at the School of Electrical Engineeri...

On January 10th, the University won 1 grand prize, 1 first prize, 3 second prizes and 1 third prize at the Final of the 3rd National Competition of College Students Scientific Innovation Works “Traffic • Future” held in Shanghai Jiaotong University. With the highest number of prizes harvested in the country, the University was granted the “Excellent Organization Award” among all the partic...

The world's first high-temperature superconducting high-speed maglev engineering prototype and its test line were launched on January 13, 2021 at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu. Epitomizing a landmark step forward, the prototype is designed and developed independently by China based on the original technology of Southwest Jiaotong University.Many new technologies are incorporated in t...

On January 7, a novel urban rail vehicle with wireless power supply rolled off the production line at CRRC TANGSHAN Co., Ltd., embodying a great leap forward from "wired" to "wireless" power supply for the first time in China. The technology of high power and great efficiency was developed by a SWJTU team led by Professor He Zhengyou based on the research project of "Contactless Power Supply Te...

​Prof. Cui Shuxun published a paper “Environment-dependent single-chain mechanics of synthetic polymers and biomacromolecules by atomic force microscopy-based single-molecule force spectroscopy and the implications for advanced polymer materials” in Chemical Society Reviews of the Royal Chemical Society as the corresponding author. Dr. Bao Yu is the paper’s first author and Southwest Jiaoto...

​On December 20, Huang Wanyi, a sophomore majoring in English at the School of Foreign Languages, won the first prize, topping all the first-prize winners at the final of the 2020 “FLTRP·ETIC Cup” English Writing Contest. After the school-level preliminary and the provincial semi-final, she came to the fore among 90 contestants nationwide who progressed from nearly 250,000 participants, and ...