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Requirements

In 1924, eligible B.Sc. graduates are admitted to the “accelerated” program (3 year course)

Common in the old system

Students who passed the I.Sc. (Intermediate of Science) with Science Option and scored 50+ points in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry are admitted to the four year course

Short-lived in the old system

Eligible students who passed the Matriculation are admitted to the “special” six year course. Due to resources (logistics …), the students were transferred” before they graduated to the “default” program

New Education System in 1964

In November 1964, three batches of students were admitted to RIT under the then new Education System.

• 200 (or so) students joined the first ever 3rd BE Class.
  Most of them completed their I.Sc.(B) with the Science Option
• 320 (or so) students joined the first ever 2nd BE Class.
  Most of them completed their I.Sc.(A) with the Science Option
• 450 (or so) students joined the first ever 1st BE Class.
  The controversial ILA (Intelligence Level Aggregate) system was used for admission.
  There were students with (a) all Science (b) all Arts (c) Hybrid

Regional College Era

After finishing two years at a Regional College, eligible students were admitted to 3rd BE classes.

Items (needing input from sayas and alumni)

• When was ILA discontinued?
• Policies for 3F, External Students, Readmission as regular student
• “Newer” systems involving 30+ TUs

Aung Kyaw Min wrote:

The controversial ILA scheme was discontinued in 1969. Sudents who passed matriculation in 1969 were admitted based on total marks. If I remember correctly lowest marks admitted to medical was 400 while RIT was 378. There were many students who chose RIT (or other majors) though they were qualified (i.e. scored more than 400) to go for medical.

GTI & AGTI

GTI stands for Government Technical Institute

Provided man power to run the engineering departments and projects in Burma.

AGTI => Associate of GTI

Workshop Practice

In the early days, engineering students have to do Workshop Practice at Insein GTI

• BOC (Burma Oil Company) funded the establishment of the BOC College [of Engineering]
• Workshops were set up at BOC College [and RIT]

Connections with GTI

Saya U Ba Hli

U Ba Hli was Principal of GTI. He also headed the Civil Engineering Department.
He transferred to Rangoon University as the first native Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
He is credited for the “Twinning Program” with the prestigious universities in the USA.

Saya C Ping Lee

Saya U Kyaw Tun (GBNF) asked his friend Saya C Ping Lee, father of Dr. Win Aung (M62), to join the EE (Electrical Engineering) Department. H.E. U Than Aung, Minister of Education, asked Saya C Ping Lee, his former student at St. Paul’s High School, to transfer to the Directorate of Technical & Vocational Training as the Director General. An assignment was to upgrade GTI and technical schools.

The GTI-RIT “Bridge” Program

It enabled eligible GTI alumni to join RIT.

• Ko Yin Sein (Caesar Yang), my classmate at SPHS, has an excellent command of English. He attended GTI and later joined the “Bridge” program as an early participant. He studied EC (Electrical Communications) and worked at BBS (Burma Broadcasting Service) after graduation.

• Ko Myint Soe (Henry, M79), Ko Hla Maw Tun (M82), Ko Kaung Kaung Oo (Gordon, M83), KKZ (Ko Ko Zin, M84), AMO (Aung Myint Oo, EC84) and Ko Myo Aung (85) are some who attended GTI and RIT/YIT.

• Ko Ba Than Nyunt provided the following list of AGTI BE’s :

Kyaw Win(Mandalay GTI, RIT) EC76

Kyi Mg Aye(I GTI,RIT) EP77

Khin Ma Htay(M GTI,RIT) C76

Oo Khin Mg(I GTI,RIT) C76

Ma Po Myint(M GTI,RIT) C76

Hlaing Myint(I GTI,RIT) M76

Thant Sin(I GTI,RIT) M76

Saw Samuel(I GTI,RIT) M76

Mg Htike(Kalaw GTI,RIT) Mn76 GBNF

Sit Thein(Kalaw GTI,RIT) Mn76 GBNF

Than Aung(I GTI,RIT) M76

Mya San(M GTI,RIT) M76

Tin Win(I GTI,RIT) M76

Kyaw Myint(K GTI) Mn 76

Lay Nyunt(I GTI,RIT) C76

Myint Sein(M GTI,RIT) C76

Mg Thaung(M GTI,RIT) C76

Soe Tint(I GTI,RIT) C76

Aye Kyi(I GTI,RIT) EP77

Mining Engineering

U Soe Khaw (GBNF) served as Part-time Lecturer and Head of the Mining Department in 1954.

U Soon Sein (GBNF) succeeded him as Full-time Lecturer and Head. He retired as Professor.

Architecture

Architecture courses were introduced in 1954.

The first batch of graduates in 1958 include U Myo Myint Sein and U Tun Thein.

U Khin Maung Thint and several foreign sayas taught the early courses.

A Group photo of the first three batches (A58, A59, A60) was posted in an early update.

U Tha Tun (GBNF) served as the native Head of Department.

U Myo Myint Sein succeeded him as Head. He retired as Professor.

Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering courses were introduced around 1953.

Several foreign sayas taught the early courses.

The first batch of graduates in 1957 include Dr Hla Myint.

U Khin Aung Kyi (GBNF) served as the first native Head of Department. He later served as Professor and Rector.

Textile Engineering

U Maung Maung Than (GBNF) served as the first native Head of Textile Department. He later served as Professor and Rector.

The first batch of graduates include U Shwe Yi.

There were four female graduates (Daw Julie Han, Daw Tin Tin Ohn, Daw Yin Yin Kyi & Daw Mi Mi) in 1961 and a lone female graduate (Daw Khin Than Nwe) in 1962.

Metallurgical Engineering

U Thit (GBNF) served as the first native Head of Metallurgy Department.

Dr. Saw Pru (GBNF), U Than Tin and Dr. Khin Maung Win (GBNF) are some early sayas.

U Aung Hla Tun (GBNF) served as Chief Editor of RIT Annual Magazine. He later won the National Literary award. He and his HMEE (History of Myanmar Engineering Education) team published a book in 2012.

Examples of Changes

Old Education System

Matriculation students

can take

• Lower Burmese (for a restricted time)
• Optional Burmese
• Optional English
• Additional Mathematics
• One extra subject (as insurance)
• …

University students

can

• [easily] switch from one discipline to another
  e.g. Engineering back to Medicine, Pure Science, Arts …

• take Double Maths and Triple Maths (Pure, Applied, Statistics)

• join B.L, B.ED, … (after their Bachelors)

• 3-year Honors (after Intermediate)

• 2-year General Honors (after Intermediate)
  
• …

New Education System

Matriculation students

take six prescribed subjects based on Science or Arts option
e.g. Burmese, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology (for Science option)

University students

• 5-year Law degree
• 5-year Education degree
• can apply for SS (Science Scholarship)
• bypass the Intermediate and are admitted directly to the Institutes
  for some time, admitted using the controversial ILA (Intelligence Level Aggregate)
• …

Newer Education Systems

tried

• Regional College
• Moving some disciplines to the Ministry of Science and Technology
• “Compressed” academic terms [to make up for the school closure]
• Proliferation of Colleges and TUs
• Hybrid nomenclature :
  Professor, Associate Professor, Lecturer (instead of Assistant Professor), …

…

Professor Laurence Dudley Stamp

He taught Geography at Rangoon University and the University of London. He authored several books and articles (on Land Use, …). One book is a prescribed text. He lectured to the first year students at LSE (London School of Economics) instead of delegating to his assistants.

His rationale : “A major subject can be taught any qualified teacher, but a minor subject should be introduced by a motivated, senior teacher. The class could be the sole exposure in their academic career; so it is important to give the students a good overview of the subject.”

At SPHS

We had to take World Geography and Burmese Geography until the Eight Standard. Contouring, Climatic Interpretation, … are some of topics that we learned.

RU Geography Sayas and Sayamas

Dr. Daw Thin Kyi (GBNF)

She is the first native Professor of Geography. She is also one of the early female Professors at Rangoon University.

U Tun Hla Aung

I was a volunteer assistant for Saya U Tun Hla Aung, who was in charge of several committees including the “Zay Nay Yar Cha Htar Yee Committee” for the Rangoon University Golden Jubilee Celebrations in 1970. Among those who applied for permits include U Maung Maung Tar (Academy winning actor, trying to sell his line of make up) and the Playboys (Than Naing, Thein Tan, …)

U Win

He attended UCC before going for his Ph.D in the US. He is an expert on Water Resources and GIS (Geographical Information Systems). He was the last speaker for the conferences held by BRS (Burma Research Society). After his presentation, the then Number One announced that “BRS has been disbanded”.

Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering is the first major/discipline offered in Burma.

The early courses were taught at a building near RGH (Rangoon General Hospital).

First native Civil professor : U Ba Hli (GBNF, also served as Dean of Engineering).

U Mya Han (GBNF), Dr. Aung Gyi, U Min Wun (GBNF) and Dr. Win Thein (GBNF) served as Civil Professors.

U Num Kok (GBNF) is a saya of our sayas.

Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Departments were established later.

At one time, the joint Mech/EE degree program was offered.

Mechanical Engineering

First native Mechanical professor : U Aung Khin

U Ba Than (GBNF) and U Kyin Soe served as Mech Professors.

First Head of Automobile Engineering sub-department : U San Tun

First Head of Agricultural Engineering sub-department : U Tin Hlaing (GBNF)

Electrical Engineering

U Kyaw Tun (GBNF) is a saya of our sayas. He requested C Ping Lee (GBNF) to join the EE Faculy.

First native Electrical professor : U Sein Hlaing (GBNF). Saya served until full retirement. He passed away a couple of years after retirement.

EE later split into EC (aka EcE, Electronics) and EP

First EC professor : Dr. San Tint (GBNF)

First EP professor : U Sein Win (GBNF)

ကွန်ပျူတာ မိသားစု မှတ်တမ်း (တချို့)

UCC Founders

Dr. ချစ်ဆွေ (ကွယ်လွန်) — Dr. Chit Swe (GBNF)

• Founder & Director
• Professor of Mathematics, RASU
• Retired as Rector of RASU
• Supervised students in Burma, Thailand and Australia
• Alumnus of Mandalay University, Imperial College (London University), Glasgow University, Liverpool University

ဦးစိုးပိုင် — U Soe Paing

• Co-founder, UCC
• Retired as UN Expert
• Alumnus of Stanford University, Southampton University
• Hosted UCC-RIT gatherings

ဦးမျိးမင်း — U Myo Min

• Co-founder, UCC
• Worked for IBM (UK), Nangyang Institute (Singapore), Seagate, Connors
• Gold medalist, I. Com
• Gold medalist, B.Com (Accounting)
• Chartered Accountant (UK)
• Alumnus of Rangoon University, Lancaster University

ဦးကိုကိုလေး (ကွယ်လွန်) — U Ko Ko Lay (GBNF)

• Co-founder, UCC
• Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Professor of Information Technology, ICST (Institute of Computer Science and Technology)
• Alumnus of Stanford University, Lancaster University

အထွေထွေ General

Dr. တင်မောင် (ကွယ်လွန်) — Dr. Tin Maung (GBNF)

• Succeeded Dr. Chit Swe as Director of UCC
• Retired as Rector of ICST
• Alumnus of Rangoon University, Queen Mary College

Dr. ထွန်းအောင်ကျော် — Dr. Tun Aung Gyaw

• Member of Generation Zero, UCC
• Former Associate Professor of Hardware Technology, ICST
• Alumnus of RIT, RU and UIUC

ဦးလှမင်း — U Hla Min

• Member of Generation Zero, UCC
• Former Associate Professor of Software Technology, ICST
• Alumnus of RIT, RU and Rice University

Dr. ကျော်သိန်း (ကွယ်လွန်) — Dr. Kyaw Thein (GBNF)

• Succeeded Dr. Tin Maung as Rector of ICST
• Alumnus of Rangoon University, Southampton University

Dr. ပိုက်တင် — Dr. Pike Tin

• Succeeded Dr. Kyaw Thein as Rector of ICST
• Alumnus of Rangoon University, Monash University

UCC Activities

UCC မိသားစု — UCC Reunions

• Gatherings hosted by U Soe Paing and alumni in Burma, Singapore, Australia and USA
• 40th Anniversary of UCC
• 30th Anniversary of ICST

UCC သကြင်္န — UCC Thingyan

• UCC Dana for Thingyan
• Dobat
• UCC Donlaba

UCC သင်တန်း — UCC Courses

• Degree and Diploma courses
• Certification
• Training

1958 မြို့ပြအင်ဂျင်နီယာ များ

** ထိုင် — ဆရာများ Seated — Sayas

* ဦးပု — စက်မှု U Pu

* ဦးအောင်ကြီး — နောက် Dr., ပါချုပ် U Aung Gyi (later Dr. & Rector)

* ဦးမင်းဝန် (ကွယ်လွန်) — နောက် ပါမောက္ခ U Min Wun (GBNF, later Professor & Head)

အသက် 92 နှစ် မှာကွယ်လွန်

* ဦးဘလှီ (ကွယ်လွန်) — မဟာဌာနမှူး Dean U Ba Hli (first native Dean of Engineering)

(ယခင်) GTI ကျောင်းအုပ်၊ မြို့ပြပါမောက္ခ

* Mr. Redpath

* Mr. Eswara

* ဦးနန်ကောက် (ကွယ်လွန်) — ဆရာများရဲ့ ဆရာ U Num Kok (Saya of our sayas)

အသက် 98+ နှစ် မှာကွယ်လွန်

** ရှေ့တန်း / ရပ် — ကျောင်းသားများ

* ခင်မောင် Khin Maung

* သန်းအောင် Than Aung

* ဌေးအောင် Htay Aung

* ခင်မောင်လွင် Khin Maung Lwin

* ကျော်တင် Kyaw Tin

* ဝင်းသိန်း (ကွယ်လွန်) — နောက် Dr., ပါမောက္ခ Win Thein (GBNF, later Dr. & Professor)

* ချစ်ဖေ Chit Pe

* ရွှေထွန်းမောင် Shwe Tun Maung

* ဝင်းမောင် Win Maung

* သိန်းလွင် Thein Lwin

* ထွန်းရီ Tun Yee

* သန်းဖေ Than Pe

** အလယ်တန်း / ရပ် — ကျောင်းသားများ

* V ကူးမား V Kumar

* ကျော်ဟိုး Kyaw Hoe

* အယ်လင်ဌေး (ကွယ်လွန်) — နောက် ကထိက Allen Htay (GBNF, later Lecturer)

RIT ဓာတ်ပုံအသင်း ဥက္ကဌ

RIT Alumni International ဥက္ကဌ

SPZP-2000 Organizer

* ဘနှင်းချစ် Ba Hnin Chit

* ကျော်မြ Kyaw Mya

* ကျော်ဒင် Kyaw Dinn

* အာဝင် မြိုင် Irwin Myaing

* ချစ်အေး Chit Aye

* မောင်မောင် Maung Maung

* နိုလန် ဝူး Nolan Wu

* မော်ဂင် ဆင်းဂါး Morgan Singer

** နောက်တန်း / ရပ် — ကျောင်းသားများ

* ပက်ထရစ်ဂျော့ Patrick George

* အော်စကာရှီရာဇီး — SPZP-2000 တက် Oscar Sharazee

* လှရွှေ Hla Shwe

* အောင်ပါသိန်း (ကွယ်လွန်) Aung Par Thein (GBNF)

* စောလွင် Saw Lwin

* စံလှအောင် — နောက် ကထိက၊ New Orleans ပါမောက္ခ San Hla Aung (later RIT Lecturer, Dr. & Professor at Tulane University in New Orleans)

RIT ရေကူးအသင်း ဥက္ကဌ

RIT လှေလှော်အသင်း ဥက္ကဌ

* ရွှေဝင်း Shwe Win

* ဒတ်ဂလက်စ်ဟိုး Douglas Ho

* ဆစ်ဒနီChen / ခင်မောင်ဝင်း (ကွယ်လွန်) Sid Chen (GBNF)

Photo 1 ပေးပို့သူ

Group Photo of Staff and Students

Saya Allen Htay (GBNF)

Saya Dr. San Hla Aung

Saya Dr. Win Thein (GBNF)

စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ် စားပွဲတင် တင်းနစ်

ဆရာ ဦးထွန်းရှောင် (စက်မှု 1962) Saya Mao Toon Siong (M62)

* National Champion ချန်ပီယန် — Singles & Doubles

* Represented Burma at SEAP, Asian Games, World Championship မြန်မာ လက်ရွေးစင်

* National Coach နည်းပြ

* Manager / Coach RIT အသင်း — မန်နေဂျာ / နည်းပြ

* ဇနီး — ဆရာမဒေါ်တင်တင်မော် (ဓာတုဗေဒ) Spouse — Sayama Daw Tin Tin Maw

တက္ကသိုလ်ပေါင်းစုံ တံခွန်စိုက် ချန်ပီယန်

Inter-Institute Table Tennis Champion

* ဝင်းမြင့် (လျှပ်စစ် 1967) Win Myint (EC67)

* စတင်လျူး (စက်မှု 1967) Stan Liou (M67)

* မောင်မောင် (မြို့ပြ 1967) Maung Maung (C67)

စစ်တုရင် လည်း ကျွမ်းကျင်

* မြတ်လွင် (ဓာတု 1967, ကွယ်လွန်) Myat Lwin (ChE67, GBNF)

** (နောက်) RIT လက်ရွေးစင် တချို့

* တင်မြင့် (စက်မှု 1969, ကွယ်လွန်) Tin Myint (M69, GBNF)

1967 RIT လူရည်ချွန်

* ညွန့်တင် (စက်မှု 1970) Nyunt Tin (M70)

* ကျော်မောင် Mining (year မသိ) Kyaw Maung (Min)

* သိန်းဝင်း ChE 71 Thein Win (ChE71)

* စိုးဝင်း M70 (or 71) Soe Win (M)

By U Ko Ko Kyi

First Post

* ဒုဝန်ကြီးဒေါက်တာညီညီနဲ့ရင်ဆိုင်ခြင်း

၁၉၇၀ ခုနှစ် ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် နှစ် ၅၀ မြောက် ရွှေရတုပွဲသဘင်အတွက် ရန်ကုန်မြို့ရှိ တက္ကသိုလ်ပေါင်းစုံမှ သက်ဆိုင်ရာဘာသာရပ် အသင်းအဖွဲ့များအားလုံးမှ ပါဝင်၍ ဆိုင်ခန်းများဖွင့်လှစ်ရမည်ဟု အထက်တန်းပညာဦးစီးဌာနမှ အမိန့်ညွှန်ကြားစာ ထွက်လာပါသည်။

ရန်ကုန်စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ်၏ နှစ်ဝက်စာမေးပွဲများနှင့် နီးကပ်တိုက်ဆိုင်နေပါဖြင့် ဘာသာရပ်အသင်းများ၏ အမှုဆောင်အဖွဲ့ဝင်များသည် အဆိုပါဆိုင်ခန်းများကို ဖွင့်လိုစိတ်မရှိကြပါ။

ထိုအကြောင်းကို အထက်သို့တင်ပြသောအခါ ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီး ဒေါက်တာညီညီမှ တက္ကသိုလ်အသီးသီး၏ ဘာသာရပ်အသင်းများမှ ဥက္ကဌများနှင့် အတွင်းရေးမှုးများအားလုံးကို ခေါ်ယူတွေ့ဆုံပါသည်။

ထိုအချိန်တွင် စာရေးသူသည် SEES (Society of Electrical Engineering Students) လျှပ်စစ်အင်ဂျင်နီယာကျောင်းသူကျောင်းသားများအသင်း၏ အတွင်းရေးမှုးဖြစ်ပြီး ဆရာဦးစိန်ဝင်းသည် ဥက္ကဌဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ ဆရာဦးစိန်ဝင်းနဲ့အတူ စာရေးသူသည် အဆိုပါအစည်းအဝေးသို့ တက်ခဲ့ရပါသည်။

ထိုအစည်းအဝေးတွင် ဒေါက်တာညီညီက ဘာသာရပ်အသင်းများအားလုံးကို မပျက်မကွက် ဆိုင်ခန်များဖွင့်ရန်ပြောပါသည်။

အသင်းအမှုဆောင်များက တက္ကသိုလ်နှစ်ဝက်စာ‌မေးပွဲများကို ရက်ရွှေ့ပေးပါရန် မေတ္တာရပ်ခံသောအခါ ဒေါက်တာညီညီက ငြင်းပယ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။

ထို့နောက် စာရေးသူတို SEES အသင်းသည် သူ့အမိန့်အတိုင်း ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်တွင် သုံးရရက်တိုင်အောင် ဆိုင်ခန်းဖွင့်ပြီး‌ ဈေးရောင်းခဲ့ပါသည်။

နောက်ဆုံးနေ့တွင် မော်လမြိုင်တက္ကသိုလ်၌ ကျောင်းသူကျောင်းသားများ ဆန္ဒပြကြသဖြင့် မြန်မာပြည်ရှိ တက္ကသိုလ်အားလုံးကို ပိတ်လိုက်ပါသည်။

ထိုသို့ဆန္ဒပြခြင်း အကြောင်းရင်းမှာ နယ်အရပ်ရပ်မှ တက္ကသိုလ်ကောလိပ်များရှိ ကျောင်းသူကျောင်းသားများကို ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် ရွှေရတုသဘင်ပွဲကို လာရောက်တက်ခွင့် မပြုခြင်းကြောင့်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

ရလဒ်ကတော့ စာရေးသူတို့အားလုံး အနားရပြီး နှစ်ဝက်စာမေးပွဲများအတွက် ပြင်ဆင်ခွင့်ရသွားကြပါလေသတည်း။