Pam Stauffer, administrative support coordinator for the department, recently was honored with the 2014 Award for Administrative Excellence. The award, established in 1970, is given to a faculty or staff member whose performance, methods and achievements exemplify the highest standards of administrative excellence.

Stauffer also recently won the Outstanding Staff Award from the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society. This award recognizes and rewards outstanding service by staff employees in the College of Engineering.

Pam Stauffer joined the Department of Electrical Engineering as the administrative support coordinator in February 2010. She began her Penn State career in the Office of the Dean in the College of Engineering shortly after she graduated from Bald Eagle Area High School in 1986. After several years, she joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering and, in 1991, accepted an administrative position in Nuclear Engineering at the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor.

Stauffer left Penn State in 1999 to be at home with her two young sons but returned to Penn State in 2000 in the Department of Geography as administrative support coordinator. Stauffer serves as vice president of Penn State Educational Office Professionals and will step up to president in July. She also serves on the Commission for Women and the Employment Issues subgroup. Within the College of Engineering, she served on the steering committee  and currenlty serves helping to develop the Staff Advisory Committee.