Stephen Michael Elonka

{{Short description|American engineer}}

Stephen Michael Elonka (died 1983) was the author of numerous technical books, including Standard Plant Operators' Manual.

{{cite book | last = Elonka | first = Stephen Michael

| title = Standard Plant Operators' Manual |edition=2 | publisher = McGraw-Hill

| date = 1975 | location = New York

| isbn = 0-07-019296-0}}

He also wrote a book of the adventures of one Marmaduke Surfaceblow, a fictional engineer who solves difficult problems in ingeniously simple ways.

{{cite book | last = Elonka | first = Stephen Michael

| title = Marmaduke Surfaceblow's Salty Technical Romances

| publisher = R. E. Krieger Pub. Co. | date = 1979

| isbn = 0-88275-967-1}}

POWER Magazine's Marmaduke Awards were named for this character.

{{cite web | title = POWER Magazine :: Archives :: August 15, 2008

| url = http://www.powermag.com/archives/2008-08-15/

| access-date = 2009-03-09}} Books by Elonka have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese.