Brief Bio

• Born of parents U San Shwe and Daw Than Tin in 1933
  
• Attended the East Rangoon Methodist School in Rangoon
• Matriculated in 1949 from East Rangoon Methodist
  Stood Seventh in the First Division
  Received the Collegiate Scholarship awarded by the Government.

• Attended I.Sc (A) and I.Sc (B) in (1949 and 1950).
• Continued to study in BOC College of Engineering
  Took Mechanical Engineering.
• Upon completion of Second year Mechanical Engineering,
  he was selected as a Government sponsored Scholar in the Spring of 1954
  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

• Completed the Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering in 1956.
• Received his Masters of Science Degree also in Chemical Engineering in 1957.
  In his Masters course he was enrolled in the coveted Chemical Engineering Practice School.

• Went back to Burma in 1957
• Appointed Lecturer and Head of Department in Chemical Engineering.
• In 1959 he married Daw Mya Mya Than, daughter of U Sein Nyo and Daw Than Yin.

• Appointed full Professorship in 1966
• Promoted to Rectorship in 1977.
• Very active as a consultant from the academia in the design and construction of the two fertilizer plants (Sale and Kyun Chaung); the Sittang Paper Mill and other various state owned chemical plants.

• Retired from the Rector’s position in 1988.
• Because of his passion for teaching he could not stay retired for long and continued working in Thailand at the Rangsit University as a Professor. He is the only foreigner accepted in the Thai Institute of Chemical Engineering.
  
• Passed away in 2020

Editor’s Notes

For SPZP-2012, Saya U Khin Aung Kyi gave an interview.

• Chemical Engineering courses were initially offered with contract sayas from India.
• When the then newly minted Saya taught, there was “testing of nerves” by some students.
• After Saya mentioned that an Indian saya would be brought in if the noisy atmosphere persists.
  That solved the problem.