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၊်

Posts

• Education Systems
• HMEE
• Positions & Salaries

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

• 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

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Deans

• Rangoon University had Deans for the Faculties.
• U Ba Hli was the first native Dean of Engineering

U Ba Hli

• First native Dean to head the Faculty of Engineering of Rangoon University
• Transferred to the Faculty of Engineering, RU from GTI (Government Technical Institute) where he was Principal and Professor of Civil Engineering
• Credited for the “Twinning Program” between the Faculty of Engineering, RU and the prestigious universities in the USA
• Per request from U Aung Khin (retired Professor & Head of Mechanical Engineering), Dr. Freddie Ba Hli (EE) — the only son — wrote about his beloved father for the commemorative issue of “RIT Alumni International Newsletter” for SPZP-2000. It has been re-posted in the newsletter updates and in the RIT Alumni Facebook Pages. Sayagyi passed away in his house on U Wisara Road in Rangoon.

Interim Deans

• Dr. Htin Aung
• Dr. Maung Maung Kha
• Dr. Tha Hla
• U Po Tha

Dr. Htin Aung

• Principal, Rangoon College
• Rector, Rangoon University
• Vice Chancellor, Rangoon University
• Interim Dean, Faculty of Engineering
• Burmese Ambassador to Ceylon
• Folklorist / Historian

Dr. Maung Maung Kha

• Doctorate in Meteorological Physics from Imperial College, London University
• Professor & Head of Physics Department at Rangoon University
• Interim Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Rangoon University
• Longest tenured Rector
• Rector of Rangoon University
• Rector of RASU
• Rector of University of Distance Learning

• Plays the violin well
• Accompanied U Ba Kyi (Artist, translator/composer of songs”) singing “Hne Yauk Hte Nay Chin De” in Burmese and English
• Passed away in Yangon in 2005.
• Centennial celebrations for his birthday were held in 2015.

Early Rectors

• Dr. Htin Aung (RU)
• Dr. Hla Myint (RU)
• Dr. Tha Hla (RU)
• U Kar (RU)
• Dr. Maung Maung Kha (RU, RASU)
• U Yone Mo (RIT)
• Dr. Aung Gyi (RIT)
• U Khin Aung Kyi (RIT)
• U Maung Maung Than (RIT)

U Yone Mo

• Retired Chief Engineer, Burma Railways
• In 1961, the Faculty of Engineering, Rangoon University moved to Gyogone and had a new name Burma Institute of Technology (BIT).
• Appointed Dean of Engineering at the BIT Gyogone Campus
• Under the new Education System, BIT became an autonomous Institute with the name Rangoon Institute of Technology (RIT). He became the Rector.
• Proponent of taking power naps
• U Wynn Htain Oo (M72) remembers how his friends were having fun with the “Ye Punn ရေပန်း” (Water Foundation). Saya saw them, but did not scold them. He said with a smile, “Young men, you can go to the University Swimming Pool or to the Inya Kan ကန် (Lake)”.
• Established the weekly “Yoke Shin ရုပ်ရှင်” at the Assembly Hall.
• Dr. Aung Gyi (Professor of Civil Engineering) remembered seeing a letter from U Yone Mo (Rector) sent to U Yone Mo (Parent of a son who happened to visit his gambling friends at the hostel). Dr. Aung Gyi told the Admin to stow away the letter.
• Ko Zaw Min Nawaday knows Sayagyi & his spouse (Daw Elizabeth Yone Mo, High Ranking Nurse at RGH and a close friend of Daw Khin May Than) very well. Sayagyi and Dr. Aung Gyi were in May Myo during one summer. Sayagyi asked Dr. Aung Gyi and Ko Zaw Min to accompany him.
  They ate Khauk Swe. Sayagyi reminded them not to tell about his “Khauk Swe” appetite to Sayagadaw.

Dr. Aung Gyi

• Succeeded U Yone Mo as Rector
• Rector (1971 – 1977)
• See Posts
• Memories of Dr. Aung Gyi
• Speech at SPZP-2000
• Coconut Episode

U Khin Aung Kyi

• Stood 7th in Burma in the Matriculation of 1949
• He did his B S and M S at MIT
• Professor of Chemical Engineering at RIT
• Succeeded Dr. Aung Gyi as Rector
• Taught at Rengsit University in Bangkok, Thailand
• Provided interview for HMEE-2012 Project

U Maung Maung Than

• BS in Textile Engineering from Clemson University and MS from Lowell University
• Professor & Head of Textile Engineering Department, RIT
• Rector, YIT
• DG, DHE
• Chair, RIT Sports Council
• Hobbies : Chinlon, Music
• Helped establish Engineering at Defense Services Academy

Dr. Henry Cho Tun (Myint Tun) wrote:

I’m going to add a few things about Saya U Mg Mg Than. I’m very close to him and the family and the son is my student. We are all golfers and both of them are very good. Saya MM Than is as good as Saya Soe Paing and plays with clubs that are custom made for him. Hope the following would be useful additions. Thank you

• He did his B S at Clemson and M S at Lowell.
• He joined BIT in 1957 as lecturer -Head of Textile Engineering Department at BOC college
• 1964 was appointed Professor at RIT
• Served as Rector, 1990-1992
• Director General of The Department of Higher Education 1992-1994 and retired
• Served as Director of Studies at DSTA (Defense Services Technical Academy)

Posts

• Administrators
• Convocation
• From BIT to YTU
• Rangoon University
• Three Events in December 1920

by Myint Thin & Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Dr. Tin Win, son of U Kwet Kaw and Daw Hla Yi, was a Maths Gold Medalist in 1958 I.Sc. Exams. He stood first in 1962 batch of B.Sc. Mech. Eng. graduates. After working at Mandalay Brewery and Distillery for a year, he joined RIT as an Assistant Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Department in 1963. He left for Melbourne University, Australia, in 1966 and obtained the doctorate degree in 1971. In 1972, he was promoted to Lecturer and worked at RIT till 1977 when he left for USA.

After working six months at Gardner Denver in Dallas, Texas, he joined Brown & Root (Halliburton Company) in Houston and became Head of Mechanical and Piping Department in 1988. Since 1992, he has been working as a Project Manager, currently in Subsea Engineering Division of Brown & Root Energy Services Business Unit.

He married Lily (Khin Htar Yee, T72) in 1984, and both of them will be attending the RIT Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe.

Updates (by Hla Min)

• Saya is Past President of BASES
• Was interviewed by Mandalay Gazette
• Ran the Los Angeles Marathon to raise fund for SPZP-2007
• Core organizer for 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles
• Ma Rosie, his sister, worked for RIT Chemistry department from 1965 to 1976
• Penny, another sister, is from the class of 70
• Lily was Founding member & Secretary of BEA (in Northern California) before she moved to Texas
• After retirement, he and Lily relocated to Los Angeles (Southern California).
• Lily’s sister is from the class of A73.

• Myint Thin (M71, GBNF) is a multiple RIT Luyechun. He rowed for RIT. He sponsored Sayagyi U Ba Than to SPZP-2007 in Singapore. He worked in Singapore and Malaysia.