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Engineering Schools in Burma

  • Saw Lin (C71)

    Saw Lin (C71)

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Highlights

    • Secretary, RIT Civil Engineering Association; Predecessors — U Hla Myint Thein (C69), U Myo Khin (C70); Successor — U Ko Ko Gyi (C72)
    Secretaries, RIT Civil Engineering Association
    • Graduated with Civil Engineering in 1971
    U & Mrs. Saw Lin
    • Retired MD, Kyay Ni project
    U Saw Lin & Dr. San Hla Aung

    SPZP-2012

    SPZP Meeting
    • Logistics
    • Security
    • Publications
    U Moe Aung and U Saw Lin
    • Chief Editor, Swel Daw Yeik Magazine
    Swel Daw Yeik Magazine Committee
    • Reprinted 23 RIT Annual Magazines
    • Hosted tour to selected sayas

    Reunion

    • Sayas
    • Alumni
    Civil Engineering Sayas and Alumni

    MES

    • VP
    • Editor & Publisher, Tech Magazine

    Memories

    • Gave me rides during my visit to Yangon in March & December 2012
    • Gave a welcome dinner at Feel restaurant for me and gave me an autographed copy of RIT Cartoons
    RIT Cartoons
    Welcome dinner

    Attendees : U Hla Min (EC69), U Ohn Khine (M70), Saya U Aung (C70), U Saw Lin (C71), Rosie Mai Khin Nyunt (ChE71), U Khin Maung Myint (ChE71)

    • Took me to SPZP meeting; Gave me dinner on the way back; Learned about his medical conditions & dietary restrictions

    Health

    U Saw Lin, Spouse, Brother, Daughter & Doctor
    • He had operations about a decade ago
    • After SPZP-2012 his health declined.
    • He was admitted to ICU a couple of times.
    • He passed away in 2014
    Obituary

    Posts

    • Civil Engineering
    • MES
    • Publications
    • SPZP
  • January 2013

    January 2013

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Greetings

    Dear Sayas and Colleagues,

    Wishing all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

    Thanks

    Thanks to all the readers — mostly silent but occasionally appreciative.

    RIT Sayas

    Since I was a Saya, but not at RIT, I was not as busy as my classmates who were RIT sayas attending SPZPs once or twice a day.

    Guest

    Some alums (e.g. class of 70 and 71, Mech 72, Civil 75) invited me as guest to their class reunions and/or SPZPs. Thanks.

    69ers

    My classmates (from the class of 69++) had a grand reunion lunch, where Ko Aung Min made a roll call of the GBNF before being entertained to food, drinks, welcome addresses, songs and dances. Thanks. Please read Ko Aung Min’s e-mail.

    With metta,

    Hla Min

    From U Aung Min (M69)

    Dear All 69++er Classmates,

    • Today, (31 December, 2012) we RIT 1969++ classmates held a grand re-union lunch successfully.
    • About 90 classmates including about 8 ladies join the re-union, from abroad and in land.
    • Although we sold the lunch tickets @ 10000 Kyats per head, KO TIN WIN (Mining) took the opportunity of hosting the re-reunion and providing Whiskey.
    • So, almost all the cash, sold amount, will be transferred to the 69er Health Care Fund
    • Ko Kyaw Zin also brought one liter of Chivas
    • Danny, Albert, and Saw Law La Htwe — good vocalists — entertained at the ceremony.

    With Metta,
    Aung Min

  • Swel Daw Yeik Foundation

    Swel Daw Yeik Foundation

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    စွယ်တော်ရိပ်ဖေါင်ဒေးရှင်း

    2013 တွင် ဖွဲ့စည်း Formed in 2013

    မှတ်တမ်း (တချို့)

    တံဆိပ် Logo

    SDYF 1

    ဆရာ ဆရာမ များ ရဲ့ ကျန်းမာရေး — ဦးစား Health Care for Sayas & Sayamas is a Priority

    အခမ်းအနား Ceremony

    SDYF 2

    ဦးဝင်းထိန်ဦး — Organizer / Fundraiser

    SDYF 3

    Annual Medical Checkup

    SDYF 4

    လစဉ် အစည်းအဝေး (Covid မတိုင်မီ) Monthly Meeting (before the pandemic)

    SDYF 5

    ဆရာဦးမိုးအောင် — နာယက U Moe Aung : Patron

    ဦးခင်မောင်ထွန်း — ဥက္ကဌ၊ U Khin Maung Tun, President & Major Donor

    ဆက်နွယ် Related

    • Steeve and Helen Kay Health Care Fund for RIT Sayas and Sayamas
    • Vision Care — ဦးခင်မောင်ထွန်း မိသားစု

    SDYF ထောက်ပံ့မှု များ Assistance

    • Hospitalization
    • Special Cases
    • Long term care assistance
    • Frequent visits to Clinic

    Posts

    • Annual Medical Checkup
    • Health Care Funds
    • Jara, Byadi & Marana
  • List of RIT Sayas

    List of RIT Sayas

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Background

    HMEE book (published in 2012) has interesting information and Appendices

    One is a list of sayas assigned to RIT in 1964

    Another is a list of sayas in 1988

    Sayas in 1988

    For those who have not seen them, Saya U Tin Myint has shared the list from 1988

    နောက်ထပ်ထွက်လာတဲ့ အာအိုင်တီသမိုင်းဝင် အမိန့်စာတစ်ခု။

    ၁၉၈၈ ဖေဖဝါရီလ ၅ ရက် ကထွက်တဲ့ အဆည အမိန့်စာ

    ရုတ်တရက်ကြည့်ရင်တော့ ရာထူးတိုး အမိန့်စာတစ်စောင်ပါဘဲ။

    – ၁၉၈၈ ခုနှစ်က အာအိုတီ ဆရာအင်အား စာရင်း အပြည့်အစုံကိုတွေ့ရမယ်။ ကျနော်မှတ်မိသလောက်ဆို ဆရာအင်အားအပြည့်ဆုံး အချိန်ဆိုရမလားဘဲ။ ဒါပေမဲ့ နိုင်ငံခြားပညာသင် အခွင့်အရေး တွေ ခါတိုင်းထက် ပိုလာတဲ့ကာလ၊ ဒီတော့ ကျောင်း လက်ကျန်အင်အားက​လျော့၊ ရန်ကုန်မှာ ကျန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဆရာတွေက တစ်ပါတ်ကို စာသင်ချိန် ၂၀ -၂၅ လောက်ယူရတယ်။

    – ရာထူးတိုးမပေးတာ ဘယ်လောက်ကြာသွားလဲဆိုတော့ စီနီယာ ကျတဲ့ ကျနော်တို့ဆရာကြီးတွေ ရာထူးတိုးဘို့ ဘယ်လောက်ကြာခဲ့လဲဆိုတာ အမိန့်စာကို သေချာကြည့် သိသာလှပါတယ်၊ ကျနော်တို့က လက်ထောက်ကထိက ရာထူးရဖို့ ၆ နှစ်လောက်ဘဲစောင့်လိုက်ရတယ်၊ ကျနော်တို့ဆရာကြီးတွေက ၁၀နှစ် ၁၅နှစ်မက စောင့်ရတယ်၊

    အခုကာလကတော့ မြင်မြင်သမျှ ပါမောက္ခ ပါ။

    – စက်မှုဌာနမှာ အရင်က ဆရာမ ဆိုလို့ ဒေါ်ဂျက်စီထွေးတစ်ယောက်ဘဲရှိရာကနေ၊ ၂ ယောက်ဖြစ်တဲ့ အချိန်၊ အခုကျတော့ ဆရာမ အင်အားများတဲ့ ပြောင်းပြန်ကာလ၊်

    Sayas 1
    Sayas 2
    Sayas 3
    Sayas 4
    Sayas 5

    Posts

    • Education Systems
    • HMEE
    • Positions & Salaries
  • Four M70

    Four M70

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    U Tha Htay

    Four M70
    • Graduated with Mechanical Engineering in 1970.
    • Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
    • Major Donor for the Reunion & Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe of the Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65.
    • Organized a Trip for Saya U Ba Than & selected attendees of SPZP-2012.
    • Helped organize the farewell party for U Shwe Hlaing (RIT Maths) and also delivered the farewell message in Burmese.
    • He is seen in the photo with his M70 classmates.

    U Soe Aung

    • Mech / Auto
    • Secretary of RIT Ah Nu Pyinnya Ah Thinn
    • Played the Clarinet

    U Win Aung

    • High School Luyechun from TTT Practicing School in the Summer of 1964.
    • Secretary of RIT Swimming & Water Polo Association.

    U Win Htay (Walter)

    • Hosted his cousin Saya U Tun Shwe during Saya’s visit to attend 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles.
    • Grapevine says that Walter’s friends shouted “Cheng Lyan” in front of his house. His father came out.

    Posts

    • Class of 1970
    • Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65
    • RIT Days (1964 – 70)
  • News in Brief & Opinion

    News in Brief & Opinion

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    ဦးရဲမြင့်(ChE70) မွေးနေ့အလှူ

    • SDYF (Swel Daw Yeik Foundation) — K 10 Lakhs
    • Eradication of Hunger — K 20 Lakhs

    September 2024 အလှူရှင်

    Ngwe Tun
    • ဦးငွေထွန်း၊
    • ဦးတင်ရှိန်၊
    • ဦးသန်းဝင်း၊
    • ဦးချမ်းငြိမ်း၊
    • ဒေါ်ခင်သန်းမြင့်တင်၊
    • ဦးစောမြင့်နိုင်၊
    • ဦးဖေဟန်ထွန်း

    1961 Matric Exam

    • 1st — Lina Ong (MEHS, ကွယ်လွန်)
    • 2nd — Robin Ban (SPHS)

    Medication

    • ဆေး တွေမှာ side effect ရှိနိုင်
    • အစားတွေ မှာ ဆေး အာနိသင်ရှိနိုင်
    • Medical Reports တွေ အပြောင်းအလဲရှိနိုင်

    U Kyaw Myint wrote;

    အစာလဲဆေး ဆေးလဲအစာ
    မသင့်သောအစာသည် အနီးကပ်ဘေး
    အနီးကပ်ဘေးသည် မသင့်သောအစာ

    Memory Loss မှတ်ဥာဏ် ချို့ယွင်း

    လူသိ — အမည်မသိ
    အမည်သိ — လူမသိ
    လူ ရော အမည် ရော မသိ

    စွယ်တော်ရိပ်

    မဂ္ဂဇင်း — 2012, 2014, 2016
    စာစောင်— 2002, 2007, 2010

    Jara, Byadi, Marana

    ကဗျာ မှာ ဇရာ၊ ဗျာဓိ၊ မရဏ မရှိ — Tekkatho Moe War
    Alumni တွေမှာ တော့ ရှိ

    Pu Zaw Pwe

    မောင်မာဃ ရဲ့ အစီအစဉ်
    ငွေရတု ပူဇော်ပွဲ
    စင်ပေါ်တက်ဘို့မလို
    Meet, Greet, Fete

    Mg Mar Ga wrote :

    ဆရာ​တွေကထိုင်မြဲအတိုင်းထိုင်​နေ…
    တပည့်​တွေကနတ်တို့ရှိခိုးနည်းအတိုင်းရှိခိုးမယ်
    ဆရာဥိးကျင်စိုးကကိုဗစ်ကာလတုန်းကကတိပြုထားတယ်
    ဒိတခါကန်​တော့ရင်တက်ပါမယ်တဲ့ ရ​အောင်ဖိတ်မယ်

    Alumni helping Alumni

    ဦးခင်မောင်မြင့်
    ဦးသန်းဝင်း
    တို့ကို စုပေါင်း ကူ
    သာဓု၊ သာဓု၊ သာဓု

  • Saya U Aung Khin in 1960 & 2012

    Saya U Aung Khin in 1960 & 2012

    by Tekkatho Moe War

    Updated : June 2025

    ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ်စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ်ကျောင်းသူကျောင်းသားဟောင်းများ၏ Worldwide ဆရာပူဇော်ပွဲကြီးတွင် ရိုက်ကူးခဲ့သည့် ယခင် စက်မှုအင်ဂျင်နီယာဌာနမှူး ပါမောက္ခဦးအောင်ခင် ပုံနှင့် ၁၉၆၀ ပြည့်နှစ်တုန်းက ပုံ ယှဥ်ကြည့်နိုင်ရန်…

    အချိန်ကာလကမ်းစပ်ကို အနိစ္စလှိုင်းတံပိုးရိုက်ခတ်ခဲ့၊ ရိုက်ခတ်နေဆဲ…..

    ဆင်ခြင်မိ…

    (စာရေးသူသည်လည်း မိမိကိုယ်ကို ထိုနည်းနှင်နှင် အမြဲမပြတ် သတိကပ် နှလုံးသွင်းကာ ဆင်ခြင်နေထိုင်လျက်…)

    RUESU Annual Magazine Committee (1960-61)

    • RUESU stands for Rangoon University Engineering Students’ Union. It is independent from RUSU (Rangoon University Students’ Union).
    • RUESU published the Annual Magazine for 1960 – 61.
    • Saya U Aung Khin served as Advisor for English Editor.
    • Tekkatho Moe War served as General Editor.

    SPZP-2012

    U Aung Khin
    Tekkatho Moe War
    • The Sixth RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe (SPZP-2012) was held at the Gyogone Campus in December 2012. It was the True Home Coming.
    • Saya U Aung Khin gave a speech.
    • Tekkatho Moe War was among the Sayas on the Stage receiving Garawa from the Alumni.

    Posts

    • Mechanical Engineering Department
    • On the road to the Millennium
    • RUESU
    • SPZP
    • Tekkatho Moe War
  • 2017

    2017

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Breakfast Gathering at Crystal Jade

    At Crystal Jade

    Welcome

    • Some 69ers hosted a breakfast gathering at “Crystal Jade” to welcome Ko Sein Myint (EP69, Singapore) and me.

    Farewell

    • They bade farewell to Ko Tint Lwin (M69), who had to go back to Singapore to take care of his elder brother Saya U Thein Lwin (EE) and Sayama Daw May Than Nwe (Joyce).

    Transportation

    • Ko Ohn Khine (M70 took me to the breakfast gathering.
    • During my visits, he also took me to meetings for SPZP-2012, SPZP-2016 & “History of Myanmar Engineering Education (HMEE)” Project.

    Attendees

    • Ko Shwe
    • Ko Tint Lwin (Daniel)
    • Ko Sein Tun
    • Ko Ohn Khine
    • Ko Myat Soe Lwin (Sai Hwet)
    • Ko Aung Min
    • Ko Myint Thein (Kabar)
    • Ko Sein Myint
    • Ko Win Maung (“Lake”)
    • Ko Aung Min — Chair of the 69er HCF and a core organizer for 69er gatherings.

    Breakfast at Taw Win Hnin Si

    • 69ers hold a monthly breakfast gathering at “Royal Rose Restaurant (Taw Win Hnin Si တော်ဝင်နှင်းဆီ)”.
    • Ko Aung Min (M69) & team gave me two mementos: a sports jacket and a Tee shirt with the 69er Logo.
    • Major donors to the 69er HCF (Health Care Fund) and the 69er Annual Dinner were also given commemorative Tee shirts.
    • Orders for the sports jacket and Tee shirt were taken from interested 69ers.
    • The group photo shows
    At Taw Win Hnin Si

    L to R : Ko Tin Aung Win (Oscar), Ko Ngwe Soe (Walter), Ko Myint Thein (Kabar), Ko Hla Min, Ko Tin Maung Aye, Ko Win Lwin, Ko Tin Tun

    EE69er breakfast gathering

    EE69er Gathering

    The group photo shows :

    • Standing : Ko Maung Maung, Ko Thein Swe, Ko Shwe
    • Seated : Ko Hla Min, Ko Than Hla (Cyril)
    • Ko Shwe is Treasurer for the 69er HCF and the EE 69er HCF.
    • Ko Maung Maung played volleyball at RIT. He is Joint Treasurer of the EE 69er HCF.

    At Winner Inn

    Winner Inn
    • The photo was taken at Winner Inn.
    • Saya Dr. San Hla Aung (C58) came to pay respect to Sayagyi U Ba Than.

    Sayagyi U Ba Toke

    U Ba Toke
    • The photo was taken at Sayagyi U Ba Toke’s house.
    • Daw Thynn Thynn (Pansy, ChE74, daughter of Sayagyi) sent a car to Winner Inn to pick up Saya U Ba Than, Saya U Tin Htut (M60) and me.
    • U Ba Than pays respect to Sayagyi U Ba Toke at least once every year.
    • Sayagyi U Ba Toke is a “Phwa Bet” of Rangoon University and the First RU Students’ Strike in December 1920.
    • Sayagyi has eight children (of which two passed away), many grandchildren and some great grand children.

    At Dhammananda Vihara

    Half Moon Bay
    • Ko Sein Myint’s daughter and son-in-law offered soon to the resident monks of the Dhammanda Vihara, Half Moon Bay (in Northern California, USA) for the first birthday of their daughter.
    • Ko Sein Myint has five children and four grand children.
    • Attendees include Ko Tin Myint (John Lee, M69) and Ma Lyo Kyin Sein (Mabel Lee, T69).

    Updates

    U Ba Toke, U Ba Than, U Thein Lwin, Daw May Than Nwe, Kabar, Ko Thein Swe & Ko Tin Myint are now GBNF.

  • Chit Htun

    Chit Htun

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Sad News

    Dear friends,

    Ko Chit Htun (Mining) passed away at the age of 68 on 19 December 2011 (Monday). His funeral will be on 23rd December, 2011 at Yae Wai at 2 pm. He was a lecturer at YIT.

    Chit Htun

    We are going to meet his family this evening.

    With Metta,
    Aung Min ( M69 )

    Comments

    U Tint Lwin (Daniel, M 69) wrote :

    So sad to hear that Ko Chit Htun has passed away. Please send my deepest condolences to his family.

    U Aung Myint (M 69) wrote :

    Hi Danny,
    I met Ko Aung Min online yesterday just after he had sent out sad news to us. When I asked Ko Aung Min to send our condolences to Ko Chit Htun’s bereaved family, he mentioned to me that he’d donate Ks 100,000 from 69ers fund. Besides, Ko AM said he would go there in a few minutes when we were online.
    By the way, Ko Chit Htun, Mehm Aye Chan (Ohn Mg), Kyaw Tint, Ko Taing Ok and I were together at ThaMine College hostels looking after RIT 1st yr students. I still remember him as a very jovial person. I believe Ko Chit Htun will now rest in peace.

    69ers GBNF (2011)

    • Aung Naing (Bahadhur, Min)
    • Chit Htun (Min)
    • Yin Kyu (M)

    Posts

    • 69ers
    • Gone But Not Forgotten
    • Mining Engineering
  • Soe Myint Lwin

    Soe Myint Lwin

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    4th in Last Row
    Obituary
    Soe Myint Lwin
    • Executive Committee member of the RIT Electrical Engineering Association.
    • Graduated from RIT in 1968 with B.E (EP).
    • Joined EPC (Electric Power Corporation) and retired as DyCE (Deputy Chief Engineer).
    • Played soccer for RIT, All Universities & Institutes, Electric Power Corporation (EPC) and Burma.
    • Passed away at the age of 72.
    • Cousin of Daw Thuzar (actress & spouse of Jeffery Tun Aung).

    U Khin Maung Zaw (KMZ, EP76) wrote :

    I believe he left EPC as DyCE. Upon retirement he was active in football [soccer], became Technical Director/Team Leader with the Football federation. For all his efforts, he was awarded “Excellent Performance in Social Field (Third Class)” in January 2008.

    Posts

    • Awards
    • Electrical Engineering
    • GBNF
    • RIT
    • Soccer