Aung Myaing (ChE72)

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Highlights

• Native of Okpo. Pen name : Maung Yin Maung (Okpo)
• Admitted to RIT in 1966
• Graduated with Chemical Engineering in 1972

• Joined the ChE Department
• Received two Masters : one from RIT, another from Melbourne University
• Spouse : Myeik Thu & Culinary Expert
• Son & daughter — both successful
• Taught at Rengsit University
• Senior manager at a Refinery in Thailand

• After retirement, spending time with his daughter and grandchildren in California, USA.

Activities

• Writes with the pen name “Maung Yin Maung (Okkpo)”. Not sure if the name is inspired by the first Burmese novel.
• Author & Poet.
• Wrote about his sayas (High School & Uni)
• Co-author of the “Collection of Poems” by five RIT poets headed by Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War). One poem is about his beloved sweetheart and later his spouse Ma Gyn Yu (ChE72).

• Organizer, Poetic Art Series & Musical Video (O Bei Myat Saya)
• Organizer for book donation to the ChE Library & Training Component of YTU Library Modernization Project.
• Per U Aung Myaing’s request, Saya U Maung Maung (George, ChE66) organized a fund raiser of US 3000+ for supporting the Training Component of the YTU Modernization Project.

• Recorded with the U-70 members at a professional studio. He has posted some of them on Facebook.
• He & Daw Gyn Yu have provided assistance to sayas and alumni visiting Bangkok especially for medical treatment.

• Provided materials (paint, paper) to Pon Tu expert Bagyee Myat Myo Myint
• Facilitator, Myanmar Association of Chemical Engineers; Knowlege sharing; Financial aid for needy ChE

Posts

• Class of 1972
• Chemical Engineering
• Musical Video
• Poetic Art Series
• Poetry