Ir Dr Wong is a recipient of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award, the Hong Kong Outstanding Industrial Engineers Award for the Millennium and Fellow of the US Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) in recognition of his professional leadership and outstanding contributions to industrial engineering. He is also the first non-US based Fellow of IIE.
Ir Dr Wong retired as the Director of the Industrial Centre of PolyU in 2009. He served his tenure of this post from 1991. Founded as a vocational training centre, the Industrial Centre later developed into a "Learning Factory" and became the University's first Area of Strength. The Centre was depicted by the US Institute of Industrial Engineers as "something Hong Kong should be proud of"; quoted by the School of Management of Xi'an Jiatong University as a case study of management excellence; and described by the Chinese Academy of Engineering as "innovator of engineering education." The Centre is also "where miracles are continuosely engineered" cited by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and "where Hong Kong Legend is created" labelled by the Hong Kong local media.