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5 unusual facts about Tongji University


Bancroft School

2009: Signed agreement with Tongji University, Shanghai, China, to establish a teacher and student exchange program between Bancroft and Tongji’s Number 1 High School.

Chifeng Road

It divides Tongji University, located in the north of Shanghai, into two parts: the North Campus and the South Campus.

Jiangwan Town Station

This station is used by people from a relatively large area, including many students living on Fudan University and Tongji University campuses.

Robert Ivy

He currently serves on the advisory board of four architecture schools—Tulane University, Mississippi State University, Auburn University’s Rural Studio and Tongji University School of Architecture and Urban Planning in Shanghai, China.

Volkswagen Touran

In 2008, Shanghai-Volkswagen with Tongji University had released a Touran Hybrid as part of the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.


Dunedin Chinese Garden

The garden is in the traditional yuanlin (園林) style, and was designed by Cao Yongkang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chen Ling of Tongji University, and Tan Yufeng of Shanghai Museum.

Frieder Nake

He has been a visiting professor to Universitetet Oslo, Aarhus Universitet, Universität Wien, Danube University Krems, University of Colorado, University of Lübeck, University of Basel, University of Costa Rica, Xi'an University of Science and Technology and Tongji University.

Leslie Jaeger

He was an Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai and Honorary President of the Usman Institute of Technology, Karachi.

Markus Heinsdorff

The works were done with support of the structural planners and engineers of Schlaich Bergermann & Partner, Stuttgart, Rein Ingenieure, Stuttgart und Varicon, Würzburg, W. Schachl, Munich and the universities Technische Universität München,Technische Universität Darmstadt and Tongji University, Shanghai.

Wan Gang

In 1994 and 1995, he was consecutively invited as guest professor and doctoral supervisor of Clausthal University of Technology and of Tongji University.


see also

GLORAD

GLORAD was founded in 2003 by Max von Zedtwitz at Tsinghua University in Beijing, expanded to the University of St. Gallen in 2004, and moved its China office to Tongji University in 2008.