Daniel Man-Chung Cheng ('81, Industrial Engineering)

Daniel Man-Chung Cheng

Managing Director, Dunwell Enviro-Tech (Holdings) Limited

BS Industrial Engineering, Cal Poly Pomona, 1981

Daniel Man-Chung Cheng worked full-time while going to school and worked three jobs during the summers to support himself as he pursued a degree in industrial engineering at Cal Poly Pomona.

“The hard work taught me to be humble and made me more determined than ever to succeed,” Daniel says.

After graduating, Daniel worked for several companies in Southern California before returning to his native Hong Kong, where he turned a VHS components startup company into the world’s largest videocassette component supplier before founding Dunwell

Enviro-Tech (Holdings) Limited, an environmental technology company that specializes in used oil recycling and industrial wastewater treatment in 1993.

Daniel received an Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) scholarship while studying at Cal Poly Pomona and started the IIE Hong Kong Chapter scholarship program in 1985 to help other engineering students. He previously served as the chapter’s president and as IIE’s regional vice president. He is serving on many of Hong Kong’s advisory committees including Innovation Technology, Water Resource and Energy Policy. He was also awarded the Medal of Honor and Justice of Peace by the Hong Kong Chief Executive.