Category: RIT

Engineering Schools in Burma

69er News
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Gathering in November, 2015

Host : U Tint Lwin (Daniel, M69)

69ers 1

69ers 2

69ers 3

69ers 4
- Albert Kyaw Min wrote :
  The Oldies of RIT 64′ (Second BE) intake, 69’++ Luncheon Gathering at Feel Restaurant sponsored by Danny who arrived yesterday (November 28, 2015) from Singapore.
  Over 50 classmates gathered .
- Emma (Tin Tin Myint) wrote :
  Good Friends, Good Food, Good Times
- Albert, Danny & Robert are the Guitarists. Have not heard from Robert.
U Win Kyi (GBNF)
- U Aung Min wrote : Funeral service of Ko Win Kyi (GBNF 87) from The Mirror 30/11/18
- U Kyaw Oo wrote : U Win Kyi was my roommate in Delft, the Netherlands.
Updates
- As of June 2025, 138 RIT69ers are GBNF.
- More than 40%
June 24, 2025
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 :

ဆရာတွေကထိုင်မြဲအတိုင်းထိုင်နေ…
တပည့်တွေကနတ်တို့ရှိခိုးနည်းအတိုင်းရှိခိုးမယ်
ဆရာဥိးကျင်စိုးကကိုဗစ်ကာလတုန်းကကတိပြုထားတယ်
ဒိတခါကန်တော့ရင်တက်ပါမယ်တဲ့ ရအောင်ဖိတ်မယ်

Alumni helping Alumni

ဦးခင်မောင်မြင့်
ဦးသန်းဝင်း
တို့ကို စုပေါင်း ကူ
သာဓု၊ သာဓု၊ သာဓု
June 19, 2025
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.
June 18, 2025
MET / MAT
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Terms
- Metallurgy
- Metallurgical Engineering
- Material Science
U Thit (GBNF)
- Was studying Mechanical Engineering when he was offered to study MET at Lehigh University in the US.
- Completed BS & joined Faculty as Assistant Lecturer
- Received MS from Melbourne University
- Became Lecturer & Head of Metallurgy Department
- Taught “Materials and Processes” in our 2nd BE class. He would throw chalk at the noisy student(s).
- Moved to Australia.
- Sent condolences via the RIT Alumni Newsletter when Saya Allen Htay (C58) passed away. He was a bit senior to Saya Allen during their high school in Yegyaw.
- Wrote a brief history of the Metallurgy Department for HMEE project. He suggested other Met sayas to cover more (after he left RIT).
- Attended selected Reunion and PZPs in Yangon.
Dr. Saw Pru (GBNF)
- He succeeded U Thit as Head of Department
- Ko Thein Ngwe (ChE76) posted an article about “လူဝင်စား” It mentioned that Saya chose to be reborn as a son of his nephew Ko Khin Aung Shwe.
U Than Tin
- He studied in US.
- Acting Head of Department
- After teaching for several years, he moved to US.
- I spoke with him briefly before SPZP-2000.
- Dr. Tin Win said that U Than Tin moved from East Coast to Los Angeles
Dr. Khin Maung Win (GBNF)

Dr. Khin Maung Win
- B.Sc. from Mandalay University
- Worked at Mandalay U and later at UBARI in Rangoon.
- Went on a government scholarship to USA to get his MS and PhD in Metallurgy.
- Joined RIT Met
- Later became DG of Technological Agricultural and Vocational Education.
U Aung Hla Tun (GBNF)

U Aung Hla Tun

HMEE
- Retired as Associate Professor
- Published two books
- Won National Literary Award for his first book.
- Chief Editor of RIT Annual Magazine
- He & his team published the History of Myanmar Engineering Education book in 2012. U Ohn Khine (M70) and I compiled the CD supplement for the book.
- Saya led HMEE-2012 & HMEE-2018 projects.
Some Senior Sayas
- U Pe Win : Professor and Rector
- U Tin Maung Nyunt (Met70) : Retired as Professor. Note that U Tin Maung Nyunt (M60) taught Agricultural Engineering.
- Daw Victoria Simon (Met70) : Retired as Professor. Her father was Workshop Superintendent.
- U Win Kyaw (Met71) : Rowing; Moved to Ministry of Mines in 1982
Win Kyaw
- U Thein Aung (Met72) : Mr. RIT in 1968; SPZP-2000 (co-emcee, Associate Editor), Lawrence Livermore Lab
Thein Aung
- U Nyunt Htay (Met73) : High school Luyechun, Poet, Chief Editor of Mudita Myanmar)
Nyunt Htay

Miscellaneous
- U Win Kyaw, U Thein Aung & U Nyunt Htay had a micro-reunion at 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles and at the iNapa Winery Lunch & Dinner hosted by Gordon Kaung (M83) and Lillian Kaung (EC83).
- U Nyunt Htay hosted a Dinner for U Win Kyaw, U Ye Myint and me during my visit to Yangon (from Nov 2019 to Jan 2020). He also gave me the Kabyar book (by five RIT sayas / alumni) and the Mudita Sar Saung (which featured the kabyars of him and Saya U Moe Aung).
Younger sayas and sayamas include Dr. Naing Naing Aung (Met91, who organized seminars).

U Win Kyaw & spouse

U Aung Hla Tun

U Thein Aung
June 16, 2025
Aung Myint (M69)
by Myint Thin

Updated : June 2025

Education & Work

U Aung Myint (3rd Standing)
- U Aung Myint (Bassein)
- Son of U Maung Thwe & Daw Lay
- Gradated with Mechanical Engineering degree from the RIT in 1969
- Joined the Institute as an Instructor in 1970
- Received Masters degree in Fluid Mechanics from UK in 1974.
- Worked as Assistant Lecturer at RIT till 1980, when he left for Singapore.
- Lectured at Singapore Polytechnic until retirement.
Family

Aung Myint 2
- Spouse : Daw Khin Nwe Aye
- Two daughters.
- Elder studied at Medical Trinity College at Dublin, UK.
- Younger studied Neuroscience at University of Otago, New Zealand.
June 16, 2025
Kin Mg Yin, Myo Myint, Khaing Tin

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

ဦးခင်မောင်ရင် (ပိသုကာ 1960, ကွယ်လွန်)

* အချိန်ပိုင်းဆရာ

* မော်ဒန် ပန်းချီ Modern Art

* ရုပ်ရှင်ဒါရိုက်တာ

ဦးမျိုးမြင့် (စက်မှု 1974)

* စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ်မဂ္ဂဇင်း၊ စွယ်တော်ရိပ်မဂ္ဂဇင်း Cover Design

* ပုံတူ — ရေးဆွဲ ပြီး လှူ

* ကာတွန်း

* အင်ဂျင်နီယာ၊ မီးရထား (ငြိမ်း)

ဦးခိုင်တင် (မြို့ပြ 1976, ကွယ်လွန်)

* ပန်းချီ ခိုင်တင်

* စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ်မဂ္ဂဇင်း Cover Design

* ဆရာ

* ရုပ်ရှင် — သရုပ်ဆောင်၊ ဒါရိုက်တာ

June 16, 2025
Classes (1973 – 93)
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

1973

M73 Hovercraft
- U Hla Win (M)
- U Khin Maung Cho (M)
- Dr. Myint Thein (M)
Myint Thein
- Dr. L Sein Myint (M)
- U Myo Myint (M)
- U Hla Win (M)
- U Aung Moung (M, GBNF)
- U San Lin (EC) & Daw Hla Myint (EC)
San Lin
- U Htun Aung Kyaw (EC)
- U Kyi Aung (ChE)
- Dennis Mackey (C)
- George Peters (C)
- U Nyunt Htay (Met)
Nyunt Htay

1974
- Dr. Htay Lwin Nyo (EP, GBNF)
- Sai Aung Thu Yein (EC, GBNF)
- U Myint Swe (EP)
- Daw San San Swe (EC)
- Daw Khin Swe Oo (EC)
- U Nay Win Maw (E)
- U Myo Thant (E)
- U Maung Maung Thant (M)
- U Sann Aung (M, GBNF)
- Charlie Than (M)
1975

M75
- Maurice Chee (M)
- U Win Khaing (M, GBNF)
- U Than Po (M, GBNF)
- U Tin Myint (M, GBNF)
- U Khin Maung Win (M)
- U Ye Lin Oo (M)
- U Ohn Win (M)
- Daw Mar Mar Yee (M)
Mar Mar Yee
- U Mya Thwin (EP)
- U Sein Tin (EC)
1976
- U Khin Maung Zaw (EC)
- U Wynn Myint Aung (EC, GBNF)
- U Sein Myint (EC)
- U Thura Thant Zin (M)
- U Aye Tun (M)
- U Khin Maung Aye (M)
1980
- U Tin Myint (M)
- U Lu Aye (M)
1981
- U Tin Aung Win (C)
1983

Gordon & Lillian Kaung
- Gordon Kaung (Kaung Kaung Oo, M)
- U Kyaw Than Aung (M, GBNF)
- U Kyaw Myint (M)
- U Kyi Shane (M)
- Lillian Kaung (EC)
- U Tha Hlaing (EC)
- U Thaung Tin (EC)
- U Shein Soe Myint (EC, GBNF)
- U Thein Htut (EC)
1984
- U Ko Ko Zin (M)
- U Aung Myint Oo (EC)
- Daw Khin Khin Hla (C)
1985
- Saw Yu Ket (Edward, EC)
- U Tun Mra Gyaw (EC)
- U San Oo (EC)
- U Tin Tun (EC)
1986
- U Tin Maung Win (C)
- U Nyunt Than (M)
- U Thaung Nyunt (M)
- Daw Cho Cho Thwin (E)
1987
- U San Lin (M)
- Eng Shwe Ho (M)
- Andrew (M)
1992
- Nan Khin Nwe (M)
- Daw May Than Htay (M)
1993
- U Mg Mg Win (Mg Yit, EC)
- U Soe Min Oo (EC)
June 15, 2025
Classes (1968 – 72)
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

1968

C68

U Myat Htoo
- U Myat Htoo
- U Myint Soe (GBNF)
ChE68

U Ohn Maung
- U Ohn Maung (GBNF)
A68
- Sai Yee Laik (GBNF)
- U Yu Swan (M68)
- U Aung Khin (EP68)
- U Tun Aung (Jeffery, EC68, GBNF)
- U Soe Myint Lwin (EP68, GBNF)
- U Khin Maung Lay (Henry, T68)
1969

M69

U Aung Min

M69
- U Aung Min
- Ivan Lee (Khin Maung Oo)
- U Htay Aung
- U Tin Aung Win (Oscar)
C69

C69
- Daw Myint Myint
- U San Lin (GBNF)
- U Han Sein (GBNF)
EC EP 69

EE69
- U Sein Myint (EP)
- Sai Kham Pan (EP)
- U Hla Min (EC)
- U Tun Aung Gyaw (EC)
- U Toung (EC)
- U Kyaw Soe (EC, GBNF)
- U Aung Thu Yein (EC, GBNF)
- U Chit Tin (EC, GBNF)
A69

A69
- U Aung Khin
- U Myo Tun (Bobby, Uzin)
- Tobias Kittim Ku (GBNF)
- U Tin Maung Hla (GBNF)
T69
- Naw Mu Mu Aye
- Saw Yu Tint
- U Hla Shwe (GBNF)
- U Hla Tun (GBNF)
- Jimmy Kyin (GBNF)
1970

M70
- Dr. Myo Khin (C)
- U Thaung Sein (Steeve Kay, EC, GBNF)
- Benny Tan (Yu Beng, M)
- Tommy Shwe (GBNF)
- Peter Pe (GBNF)
- U Cho Aye (M, GBNF)
- U Tha Htay (M70)
- U Ohn Khine (M)
- U Zaw Min Nawaday (EP)
- Daw Tin Tin Myint (Emma, ChE)
- U Ye Myint (ChE)
- Daw Thynn Thynn Khaing (Janet, EP)
- Daw Than Yi (Maubin Ma Shwe Than, EP)
- Daw Tin Myint Oo (Rosy Tin Maung, May Lin Set Hmu, M)
- Sai Thein Maung (C)
1971

M71
- U Saw Lin (C, GBNF)
- Daw Mai Khin Nyunt (Rosie Gyi, ChE)
- U Khin Maung Myint (ChE)
- U Khin Maung Myint (M)
- U Myint Than (M)
- U Myint Toe (M)
- U Myint Thin (M, GBNF)
- U Win Kyaw (Met)
1972
- U Thein Aung (Met)
- U Thein Aung (M)
- U Wynn Htain Oo (M)
- U Myint Pe (M)
- U Aung Myaing (ChE)
- Daw Gyn Yu (ChE)
- Trixie Tan (ChE)
- U Myo Myint Pe (ChE, GBNF)
- U Tun Shwe (ChE)
- U Kyaw Myint (T)
- Daw Sandi Hlaing (T)
- U Kyaw Myint (EP)
June 15, 2025
Classes (1963 – 67)
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

1963

EE63

EE Sayas
- U Moe Aung
- U Sein Maung
- U Ba Myint
- U Khine Oo
- U Soe Min (GBNF)
- U Nyi Nyi (GBNF)
- U Chin Way (GBNF)
ChE63
- Dr. K C Chiu
M63

U Sein Htoon
- U Sein Htoon
- U Shwe Kyaw (GBNF)
- S Kyaw Aye (GBNF)
- U Soe Lwin (GBNF)
C63
- U Myint Khine (Norman)
- U Kyi Kong Tham
- U Kaung
1964

C64
- U Thein Tan
- Dr. Ohn Myint
- U Khin Maung Phone Ko
M64
- U Kyaw Myint
- U Lay Aung
1965

M65
- Dr. Nyo Win
- U Kyaw Sein (GBNF)
- U Myo Win (GBNF)
- Dr. Kyaw Sein
- U Hla Myint
1966

ChE66
- U Maung Maung (George)
- U Myat Thwin
- Daw Tin Myint
- U Tint Swe
- U Ne Win Myint (Victor, GBNF)
EC / EP 66
- U Thaung Lwin (EC)
- U Aung Min (EC)
- U Soe Lwin (EC)
- U Thein Toe (EC)
- U Khin Maung Oo (Robert, EC)
- U Tin Shwe (EP, GBNF)
1967

M67
- U Htun Aung Kyaw (ChE67)
- U Tin Myint (David Ko, GBNF)
- U Win Thein (GBNF)
- U Aung Khin
- U Than Htut
- U Kyaw Oo (GBNF)
- U Tun Kyi (GBNF)
- U Tin Maung Oo (GBNF)
- Dr. Chan Nyein (GBNF)
- U Sein Shwe
EC / EP 67

EC & EP 67
- U Myo Myint (EC)
- Daw Yi Yi Aung (EC)
- Nancy Hla Aung (EC, GBNF)
- Chein Hoke (EC)
- Dr. Sann Oo (EP)
- Dr. Thein Tun (EP)
- U Hla Aung
- Daw Maywadi Tun Tun
ChE67

ChE67 Group
- U Htun Aung Kyaw
A67
- Dr. Koung Nyunt (GBNF)
- Daw Khin Khin Kyu
- U Win Myint
June 15, 2025
Engineering Classes (1958 – 62)
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

1958

C58

C58 Group
- Allen Htay (GBNF)
Allen Htay
- Dr. San Hla Aung
Dr. San Hla Aung

Dr. Win Thein
- Dr. Win Thein (GBNF)
- Oscar Sharazee
- U Khin Maung Win (Sid Chen, GBNF)
EE58

EE58 Group
- U Htin Paw (GBNF)
U Htin Paw
- U Ba Nyunt (GBNF)
1959

M59

M59 Group
- U San Tun
U San Tun
- U Tin Hlaing (GBNF)
U Tin Hlaing
- K Krishna
- U Tin Htway
A59
- U Bo Gyi (GBNF)
- Dr. Lwin Aung
EE59
- U Myo Kyi
- Dr. Ba Lwin
- L Tin Htun (Dr. Chris Lee)
1960

A60
- U Tin Htoon
- U Aung Kyee Myint
- U Kin Maung Yin (GBNF)
- Victor Pe Win
U Tin Htoon

M60
- U Tin Htut
U Tin Htut
- U Tun Shwe
ChE60

Dr. Maung Maung Win
- Dr. Maung Maung Win (GBNF)
EE60

EE60 Group
- U Soe Thein
1961

EE61

Dr. San Tint
- Dr. San Tint (GBNF)
T61
- Dr. Julie Han (GBNF)
- Daw Tin Tin Ohn (Amy Thwin, GBNF)
- Daw Yin Yin Kyi
- Daw Mi Mi Lay
M61
- U Maung Maung Win
C61
- Dr. Aung Soe
1962

M62

Mao Toon Siong
- Mao Toon Siong
- Dr. Tin Win
- U Aye
- S. Arya (GBNF)
C62
- Dr. San Lin
EE62
- U Tin Maung Thein
June 15, 2025