U Kyaw Tun

by Hla Min

Update : July 2025

Highlights

• Early saya of Electrical Engineers
• Worked briefly at Namtu mines before joining Electrical Engineeering Department at Rangoon University

• Saya of our sayas. His students include Saya U Sein Hlaing and Saya U Tin Swe
• Requested C Ping Lee (father of Dr. Win Aung M62) to join EE department. HE U Than Aung asked Saya C Ping Lee (his former student at SPHS) to head Technical & Vocational Training Directorate and to improve curriculum (e.g GTI).
• President of RIT Electrical Engineering Association

• Patron of Hlyat Sit Sar Saung Committee

• Taught “Principles of Electrical Engineering” to non-engineering students. Sayas who later taught the course include Sayas U Myo Kyi & U Moe Aung.
• Told a class that suitors of his lovely daughters must be doctors (medical or Ph.D).
  Anecdote was recounted by “Doctor” Tin Aung Win (spouse of Dorothy Kyaw Tun) for SPZP-2000. Saya’s elder daughter Elizabeth (Dr. Daw Tin Nu) has a Doctorate in English.

• After retirement, Saya visited Australia
• Passed away peacefully in Yangon
• Spouse passed away during our RIT days. We attended her memorial service at Saya’s home.

Updates

• Several EE sayas are GBNF.
• For SPZP-2010, I wrote “A Sad & Short Clip : EE Sayas”.
• Met Dorothy at the SPZPs.
• Elizabeth was my classmate in Primary School.