Andrew Pfefer Story
As a child, Andrew Pfefer loved to go with his father, Vic, to Take Your Child to Work Day at Ford Motor Company. Pfefer especially loved to design cars at the event. He became very inquisitive and curious about the world of engineering. According to Pfefer’s parents, he would build models with popsicle sticks and Legos. Pfefer’s love for cars has grown, and his creativity and curiosity continue to aid him in engineering structures. This love eventually inspired his interest in aerospace engineering, and led to his involvement in the Miura Project. The Miura Project is an aerospace engineering project that ran through 2017 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Miura is a form of origami that inspired the project’s structure. The project’s team created a soft-shelled structure that can collapse and expand again. The lightweight, small and reusable structure could be used to make spaceflight more efficient and cost-effective. Pfefer’s father’s line of work first exposed