MET / MAT

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Terms

• Metallurgy
• Metallurgical Engineering
• Material Science

U Thit (GBNF)

• Was studying Mechanical Engineering when he was offered to study MET at Lehigh University in the US.
• Completed BS & joined Faculty as Assistant Lecturer
• Received MS from Melbourne University
• Became Lecturer & Head of Metallurgy Department
• Taught “Materials and Processes” in our 2nd BE class. He would throw chalk at the noisy student(s).
• Moved to Australia.
• Sent condolences via the RIT Alumni Newsletter when Saya Allen Htay (C58) passed away. He was a bit senior to Saya Allen during their high school in Yegyaw.
• Wrote a brief history of the Metallurgy Department for HMEE project. He suggested other Met sayas to cover more (after he left RIT).
• Attended selected Reunion and PZPs in Yangon.

Dr. Saw Pru (GBNF)

• He succeeded U Thit as Head of Department
• Ko Thein Ngwe (ChE76) posted an article about “လူဝင်စား” It mentioned that Saya chose to be reborn as a son of his nephew Ko Khin Aung Shwe.

U Than Tin

• He studied in US.
• Acting Head of Department
• After teaching for several years, he moved to US.
• I spoke with him briefly before SPZP-2000.
• Dr. Tin Win said that U Than Tin moved from East Coast to Los Angeles

Dr. Khin Maung Win (GBNF)

• B.Sc. from Mandalay University
• Worked at Mandalay U and later at UBARI in Rangoon.
• Went on a government scholarship to USA to get his MS and PhD in Metallurgy.
• Joined RIT Met
• Later became DG of Technological Agricultural and Vocational Education.

U Aung Hla Tun (GBNF)

• Retired as Associate Professor
• Published two books
• Won National Literary Award for his first book.
• Chief Editor of RIT Annual Magazine
• He & his team published the History of Myanmar Engineering Education book in 2012. U Ohn Khine (M70) and I compiled the CD supplement for the book.
• Saya led HMEE-2012 & HMEE-2018 projects.

Some Senior Sayas

• U Pe Win : Professor and Rector
• U Tin Maung Nyunt (Met70) : Retired as Professor. Note that U Tin Maung Nyunt (M60) taught Agricultural Engineering.
• Daw Victoria Simon (Met70) : Retired as Professor. Her father was Workshop Superintendent.
• U Win Kyaw (Met71) : Rowing; Moved to Ministry of Mines in 1982

• U Thein Aung (Met72) : Mr. RIT in 1968; SPZP-2000 (co-emcee, Associate Editor), Lawrence Livermore Lab

• U Nyunt Htay (Met73) : High school Luyechun, Poet, Chief Editor of Mudita Myanmar)

Miscellaneous

• U Win Kyaw, U Thein Aung & U Nyunt Htay had a micro-reunion at 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles and at the iNapa Winery Lunch & Dinner hosted by Gordon Kaung (M83) and Lillian Kaung (EC83).
• U Nyunt Htay hosted a Dinner for U Win Kyaw, U Ye Myint and me during my visit to Yangon (from Nov 2019 to Jan 2020). He also gave me the Kabyar book (by five RIT sayas / alumni) and the Mudita Sar Saung (which featured the kabyars of him and Saya U Moe Aung).

Younger sayas and sayamas include Dr. Naing Naing Aung (Met91, who organized seminars).