​Crystal snowflakes embellish the falcon-shaped train head and white streamers drift on the ice blue train body.This is the Fuxing smart bullet train, a special edition officially put into operation on January 6 for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Such a decoration on the train bespeaks “auspicious snow heralding a warm spring”. It is co-designed by the industrial design team of the Instit...

From December 24 to 26, Southwest Jiaotong University hosted the Asia-Pacific regional TrainRail Hackathon. This event was sponsored by International Rail Education & Training Board (TrainRail) of International Union of Railways (UIC) and supervised by the Education Alliance of the Belt and Road International Railway Talents and Joint Research Center of Belt and Road International Organizations...

On the afternoon of December 24, an online meeting between Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) and the National University of Laos (NUOL) was held to discuss matters related to the co-founding of the Laos Inspection and Certification Center. This move is a response to the invitation from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Lao People's Democratic Republic following the operation of Chin...

Hosted by Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) in tandem with the University of Technology Sydney, the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Digital Society and Intelligent Systems (IEEE DSInS 2021) was successfully held online from December 3 to 4, attracting many participants from around the world.Tianrui Li, Chairman of this Conference and Professor of the School of Computing and Artificial...

​On Friday 26 November 2021, the International Union of Railways (UIC) held a video conference on the completion evaluation of its science and research projects, and Prof. Shuai Bin and his team from the School of Transportation and Logistics attended the meeting and presented their research results.In 2020, the project of Prof. Shuai Bin’s team, Risk Assessment of International Railway Trans...

From November 26 to 28, the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE 2021) was successfully held online and offline in Chengdu, and participants attended the conference and interacted in real time from around the world. This Conference was jointly sponsored by Southwest Jiaotong University, University of Technology Sydney of Australia and Ulster Unive...

​Headed by Prof. Zhu Qing at the Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, the Virtual Geographic Environment Team of Southwest Jiaotong University published a paper entitled “Topographic and Geomorphological Mapping and Analysis of the Chang’E-4 Landing Site on the Far Side of the Moon” in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE & RS), and won the ASPRS Esri Award in 2...

A few days ago, students from the University won trophies in two renowned national contests, namely Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM) and the Grand Final of the Sixth Logistics Technology (Cranes) Creativity Competition of 2021 China Mechanical and Engineering Innovation and Creativity Competition for University Students.The 2021 awards-winners list of the High...

From 18th to 21st October, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) conducted international accreditation of engineering education for the Programme of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of the SWJTU-Leeds Joint School. The expert accreditors consist of Chris Guy, member of IET Academic Accreditation Committee, John Davies, Chiew Foong Kwong, IET academic accreditors, and Lorna Ha...

At the China-UK Seminar on Higher Education held online on the afternoon of November 9, Yang Dan, President of Southwest Jiaotong University, delivered a keynote speech entitled “Promoting Integrated and Interconnected Development for a Shared Future and Win-win Cooperation and Initiating a New Mode of Online Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era”.Yang first introduced about the University and i...

From October 9th to 14th, the team composed of Zhang Xiaolu, Yan Yifan, Gao Yibo from the Programme of Materials at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, under the guidance of Profs. Wang Lianghui, Chen Dazhi and Liu Yan, succeeded in securing one national first prize, two second prizes and a group third prize at the 10th National Metallographic Skills Competition for College Student...

On September 9, the Discipline of Social Sciences at Southwest Jiaotong University was officially included for the first time in the top 1 % of ESI world ranking according to the latest issue of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) of Clarivate Analytics covering the data from January 1, 2011 to June 30, 2021. The emergence of the fifth discipline in the top 1% of ESI world ranking after the Disc...