Mechanical Engineering

by Hla Min

Updated : September 2026

ဆရာ (တချို့)

Late 1980s

• Sayagyi U Ba Than & Staff
• U Maung Maung Than (Rector)
• U Kyin Soe later became Professor & Rector
• Some sayas were on Deputation (e.g studying in Australia)
• Two sayamas
• Some are now GBNF

U Aung Khin ဦးအောင်ခင် — Mech Engg ပါမောက္ခ ငြိမ်း

• First native Professor
• Moved to Canada
• အကြံပေး၊ Advisor, RIT Alumni International

U Ba Than ဦးဘသန်း (GBNF) — Mech Engg ပါမောက္ခ ငြိမ်း

• Second native Professor
• အကြံပေး၊ Advisor, Engineering Library
• အကြံပေး၊ Early supporter & host of HMEE project
• Saya passed after his 94th birthday

U San Tun ဦးစံထွန်း — Auto Engg ဌာနမှူး ငြိမ်း

• President, BEA
• Saya is GBNF

U Tin Hlaing ဦးတင်လှိုင် (ကွယ်လွန်) — Agri Engg ဌာနမှူး ငြိမ်း

• President, All Universities’ Hockey
• Passed away due to lack of access to the rare Dialysis machines at BMH and an inability to get PP and visa in time to have treatment abroad

U Tin Htut ဦးတင်ထွဋ် — ကထိက ငြိမ်း

• Captain & Gold, RUBC
• Founder & Past President, BASES
• Donor, YTU Library project
• Celebrated his 89th birthday

U Tun Shwe ဦးထွန်းရွှေ

• Patron, SDYF
• Patron, Alumni Association

U Tin Maung Nyunt ဦးတင်မောင်ညွန့် — Agri ဆရာ ငြိမ်း

• President, RIIT သိုင်း
• Donor, YTU Library project
• Celebrated his 90th birthday

U Maung Maung Win ဦးမောင်မောင်ဝင်း — ကထိကငြိမ်း

• RIT Automobile Club
• Wrote articles for RIT Alumni Newsletter
• Moved to Australia

Dr. Tin Win Dr တင်ဝင်း — ကထိကငြိမ်း

• Past President, BASES
• Organizer, 2015 Alumni Reunion in LA

Mao Toon Siong

• Champion, Table Tennis
• National Coach, Table Tennis

U Kyi ဦးကြည်

• Perfect score in 4 subjects in Final Year
• Head, Aeronautical Engg

S Arya (GBNF)

• Had cute accent
• See post by Dr. Myint Thein (Ba Thein, Atlanta)

U Phone Myint ဦးဖုန်းမြင့်

• Workshop Superintendent
• After retirement, visited daughters in Jamaica, Malaysia & USA

Dr. Tin Hlaing

• Moved to Singapore
• Organizer, SPZP-2002

U Soe Lwin ဦးစိုးလွင် (ကွယ်လွန်)

• Saya is GBNF

U Win ဦးဝင်း

• Saya has a medical problem

S ကျော်အေး (ကွယ်လွန်)

• Saya is GBNF

U Lay Aung ဦးလေးအောင် (ကွယ်လွန်)

• Saya passed away in 2026 at the age of 87

U Kyaw Myint ဦးကျော်မြင့်

• Worked for UN in Beijing
• After retirement, moved to USA

U Kyaw Sein ဦးကျော်စိန် (ကွယ်လွန်)

• Archived Pon Tu’s of Sayas (by Bagyee Myat Myo Myint)
• Passed away in Singapore

Dr. Kyaw Sein Dr ကျော်စိန်

• RIT Weightlifting and Body Building
• Retired Professor from YIT & Malaysian University

U Myo Win ဦးမျိုးဝင်း (ကွယ်လွန်)

• Rowing
• RIT Automobile Club
• Taught at Wagga Wagga University, Australia
• Passed away in Australia

U Hla Myint ဦးလှမြင့်

• Swimming & Water Polo
• Co-Chair, RIT Alumni Gathering in Sydney, Australia in 2006

Dr. Nyo Win

• Organizer, SPZP-2000
• Founding Member, RIT Alumni International
• Founding Member, NorCal RITAA
• Worked for Tech Companies in USA & Taiwan

U Lin ဦးလင်း

• Rowing
• RIT Buddhist Association
• SPZPs in Yangon
• Has a medical problem

GBNF

• U Ba Than
• Dr. Chan Nyein
• U Han Tun
• U Khin Maung
• U Kyaw Sein
• U Lay Aung
• U Myo Win
• S Arya
• S Kyaw Aye
• U San Tun
• U Soe Lwin
• U Thein Tun Aung
• U Tin Hlaing
• U Tin Maung Oo
• …

Updates

• Several are GBNF.
• U Aung Khin is in Canada. He stays fit by playing Tennis & Golf.
• U Tin Htut, Dr. Tin Win, Mao Toon Siong, U Tin Maung Nyunt, U Kyaw Myint & Dr. Nyo Win are in USA.
• U Maung Maung Win & U Hla Myint are in Australia.
• Some — U Win, Dr. Kyaw Sein & U Lin — have medical problems