Mar. 30, 2011
TMC and Tsinghua University to Continue Joint Research
Beijing, China, March 30, 2011—Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Tsinghua University* held a signing ceremony today at the university to mark the agreement of a five-year extension from April of their joint research conduced through the Tsinghua University-Toyota Research Center. Tsinghua University and TMC have been conducting joint research in four fields—environmental science, energy, automobile safety technologies and materials science—since the establishment of the center in March 2006.
Tsinghua University Vice President Kang Kejun and TMC Executive Vice President Takeshi Uchiyamada, among others, attended the signing ceremony, which was followed by a meeting held to present the center's research results.
With the aim of enhancing mutual technical capacity, Tsinghua University and TMC started holding joint technology courses in 1997 and conducting individual joint research projects with the university's laboratories in 2003. The research center was established to realize the even closer collaboration necessary to help achieve sustainable global economic and social development and the formation of a prosperous and environment-considerate society.
Through the manufacture of automobiles, TMC aims to continue actively contributing to the development of regions in which it conducts business.
Tsinghua University Vice President Kang Kejun and TMC Executive Vice President Takeshi Uchiyamada, among others, attended the signing ceremony, which was followed by a meeting held to present the center's research results.
With the aim of enhancing mutual technical capacity, Tsinghua University and TMC started holding joint technology courses in 1997 and conducting individual joint research projects with the university's laboratories in 2003. The research center was established to realize the even closer collaboration necessary to help achieve sustainable global economic and social development and the formation of a prosperous and environment-considerate society.
Through the manufacture of automobiles, TMC aims to continue actively contributing to the development of regions in which it conducts business.
Main Joint Research* at Tsinghua University-Toyota Research Center
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Environmental science
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Purification of wastewater, large-city air quality, simulating reducing nationwide automobile CO2 emissions
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Energy
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China energy-scenario forecasts, underground sequestration of CO2
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Automobile safety technologies
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Characteristics of drivers in accidents in China, building the model of crash test dummies
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Materials science
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Batteries, thermoelectric materials, solid-state electrolytes, magnets
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*From March 2006 to March 2011
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*Established in 1911. One of China's leading general universities, it has a faculty of approximately 3,000 professors and associate professors and a student body of approximately 36,000.
