Update : November 20, 2022

Brief Bio

• Matriculated from Okpo High School
  
• Joined Chemical Engineering Department after graduation
  
• Received Masters from RIT and Melbourne University
  
• Taught at RIT for 18 years
  
• Taught as full-time Lecturer at Rengsit University (Thailand) for 3 years
  
• Taught Metallurgical students solid-gas reactions for two semesters at Chulalongkorn University of Thailand as part-time lecturer
  
• Worked for a refinery and petrochemical complex in Thailand as a refinery technology manager/advisor for 26 years
  
• Presented a number of papers about refinery at various international conferences
  
• Retired but un-retired for a lucrative offer as Consultant

Activities and Achievements

• Member, RIT U70 Group
  Vocalist
  Producer, Music Videos
  
• Organizer, Poetic Art Series
  Poet : Okpo Maung Yin Maung
  
• Won the heart of Myeik Thu
  Ma Gyn Yu (ChE72) was the second youngest in the Class of 72
  She said to others, “Don’t you have Na Ma?”

Notes

• Split time between Thailand and California.
  
• Read naming conventions
  Finally decided to use “Yu Aung” in their children’s names
  
• Min Yu Aung (son)
  alumni of Assumption University
  worked in Telecommunications
  
• Hnin Yu Aung (daughter)
  BS and MS from USA
  worked as Software Engineer
  
• RIT Ambassadors in Thailand
  Helped sayas and alumni during their trips to Thailand (some for medical check up and treatment)
  
• Recently hosted a BBQ lunch gathering at Hnin’s house
  Attendees :
  Saya George (U Maung Maung, ChE66) & spouse,
  Trixie Tan (ChE72),
  Saya U Thein Aung (Met72, Mr. RIT68) and Sandra (M76),
  me and my spouse

Photos

Feedback

• Mg Mar Ga wrote :

လက်တွဲညီသောစုံတွဲကျောင်းတုန်းကမဂင်ယုတို့နေ့လည်ထမင်းစားဆင်းလာရင် ဂင်ယုနင့်ကိုငါချစ်တယ် လို့ A Block ကနေစခဲ့နောက်ခဲ့တာအားနာလိုက်တာအခုတော့မောင်နှမတွေဖြစ်နေပြီ​ေအောင်မြိုင်ကတော့အစထဲကညီအကိုဖြစ်နေတာ ကျန်တော်လုပ်တဲ့အများအကျိုးမှန်သမျှသူတို့မပါတာတခုမှမရှိ တကယ်သာနတ်ဖြစ်ကြေးဆိုရင်neighbour ဖြစ်မှာသေချာ အကိုလှမင်းလဲအိမ်နီးချင်းဖြစ်မှာ

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Micro-gathering in Thailand in November 2022

• U Aung Myaing & Daw Gyn Yu
• U Khin Maung & Daw Khin Mu Mu