Daniel O. Wong, Ph.D., P.E. 
After arriving from Macau, a former Portuguese Colony in China, in 1980, Daniel Wong graduated from the University of Houston with a B.S.C.E. in 1983, a M.S.C.E. in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1988, with an emphasis on geotechnical engineering. He joined McBride-Ratcliff & Associates, Inc., (MRA) shortly thereafter, where he began working with Zeki Tolunay, P.E.  In 1993, Dr. Wong left MRA with Mr. Tolunay to start up Tolunay-Wong Engineers, Inc. (TWE).  He currently serves as CEO of TWE in Houston, Texas. Dr. Wong is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and Louisiana.  He was appointed in 2006 by Governor Rick Perry to the Texas Board of Professional Engineers, where he currently serves.

Dr. Wong was elected and was an At-Large City Councilman in the City of Sugar Land from 2002 to 2008 and also a Board member of the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) and the H-GAC Transportation Policy Council.  He is a trustee of Fort Bend Economic Development Council and a board member of Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce.  He served on the Boards of the Fort Bend YMCA, the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County, and the Fort Bend American Heart Association.


Dr. Wong serves as a Board member of the University of Houston Civil Engineering Department Advisory Board.  He also served on the Board of Houston Council of Engineering Companies (formerly ACME) and as President of Asian American Engineers/Architects and is currently its Treasurer.


Dr. Wong was recognized as the Young Engineer of the Year by the Sam Houston Chapter of Texas Society of Professional Engineers in 1993, and was named as the Distinguished Young Engineering Alumnus by the University of Houston Alumni Association in 1998. Dr. Wong was the recipient of the 1989 John B. Hawley Award by the Texas Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.