May 28, 2015: RailTEC’s Executive Director, Chris Barkan, signed a memorandum of understanding with ZHANG Xingchen, Vice President of Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), and agreed to support the BJTU application to setup an international joint laboratory at the BJTU campus. A formal announcement will be made in June by our Chancellor and BJTU’s President. As part of the support, one to two of the RailTEC faculty will soon start working on joint research projects at the BJTU campus.