The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute has won the prestigious Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education—one of the highest honors in international higher education. Dean Jun Ni of the Joint Institute will...
For 7 years the Yunnan Student Volunteers of the UM-SJTU Joint Institute have been helping the children in the remote villages in Yunnan Province. Every winter, as timely as the migrant birds, the JI Yunnan Student Volunteers would arrive at Daxi Elementary School and...
JI’s Student Affairs Office, consisting of Scott Yang, Qi Wu, Candice Liu, Si Chen, Wentao Qian, and Jie Lin, has won the award of “Excellent Student Work Group,” which is the highest honor from the Student Affairs Committee of SJTU. Besides, the office has also won...
JI Associate Professor Lipo Wang has been selected as the 2013 SJTU Excellent Advisor for International Graduate Students. Two JI master students, Ali Mohammadabadi (advisor: Dr. Roberto Dugnani) and Muhammad Zubair Shekh (advisor: Lipo Wang), have won the 2013 SJTU...
JI’s Dean Jun Ni has won the 2013 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award granted by CPC Central Committee and the State Council. This is the highest honor given to foreigners by the Chinese government in the field of science and technology. 2013...
A pair of mechanic hands playing the piano, a robot picking up tennis balls deftly, and a live version of “King of Fighters” unfolding…These are just some of the highlights of the 2013 JI Winter Design Expo which was held in the new library of Shanghai...
On Dec 10, nearly forty experts and researchers from SJTU, Tsinghua University, University of Michigan’s Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation (SMART), and other diverse range of domestic and international institutions attended a special...
The UM-SJTU Joint Institute’s Associate Professor David Hung was elected as a SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers) Fellow by the SAE Fellows Committee in Oct 2013. Among the twenty-two newly elected SAE Fellows in 2013, Professor Hung was the only one...
Shanghai Municipal Education Commission has announced the winners of model English Courses for international students, among which is Probabilistic Methods in Engineering taught by JI’s lecturer Dr. Horst Hohberger. This course is a required course for the JI...
