A team of Texas Southern University (TSU) administrators and faculty visited China recently to finalize an agreement for student and faculty exchange with Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU). TSU’s Department of Transportation Studies will work with BJTU to address traffic problems in Beijing and Houston. It represents an opportunity to pair TSU’s innovative Transportation Studies Program with that of BJTU’s, which is the premier academic leader on transportation issues throughout China. The agreement provides an opportunity for TSU students to experience culture and dynamics of a region that is rapidly becoming one of the largest economies in the world. The mission of TSU’s Transportation Studies Program is to provide comprehensive transportation education that builds on the latest data, systems and technologies.
Traffic congestion has become one of the most serious urban problems in many large Chinese cities.
BJTU is located in the Silicon Valley area of China. BJTU specializes in engineering, management, economics, science and humanities. However it is best known for its programs in information and communications engineering, management and economics. Its innovative transportation programs include transport and information systems, signal and information processing, transport information engineering and control, transport planning and management and industrial economics.
The university has about 20,000 students, 5,000 of whom are graduate level, and boasts 27 undergraduate, 88 master, 45 doctoral and two professional degree programs (MBA and Master of Engineering).
Another team of university officials are planning to travel to China again to sign a agreement between Texas Southern University and Renmin University School of Law, one of the premier law schools in China. Several TSU Thurgood Marshall School of Law students have attended Renmin’s innovative Intellectual Property Law Summer Institute in Beijing.
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