​The Agreement on the Collaborative Bachelor’s Degree Program of Fire Protection and Safety Technology was extended online between Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU) of United States at 8:00 p.m. on May 20, 2021 (7:00 a.m. EST). Presidents Yang Dan and Burns Hargis were present at the ceremony and SWJTU Vice President Yao Faming hosted the ceremony.In hi...

The gold medal goes to a SWJTU team consisting of Zhang Hansheng, Wang Haoyuan and Zheng Xingyu at the Asian final of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The Contest was held at Northwestern Polytechnical University from April 16 to 18 with 291 participating teams from universities across the country, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ...

Two SWJTU teams scooped their respective national first prizes at the final of the 7th National Contest on Logistics Design by University Students (NCLDUS) held in Beijing from April 22 to 25. In addition, one of the two named “E Zhou Yun Yun” was granted the “Most Valuable Business Award”, its five member students were accepted into the Special Talent Direct Admission Scheme, and the super...

​Following fierce contentions, the SWJTU team composed of Lin Chen, Zhang Jidan, Zhang Ming, and Chen Chen from the Programme of Building Environment and Energy Engineering at the School of Mechanical Engineering beat the other seven teams and won the only grand prize in China Division of the 2020 CAR-ASHRAE Student Design Project Competition.On April 8, 2021, the winning team was invited to a...

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...