ALUMNI Q&A ULS alumni play an important role in our school community. Their personal achievements and professional accomplishments demonstrate the valuable impact of a ULS education, providing a road map for current and future Knights to follow. Just as their experiences at ULS have impacted their lives and careers, we benefit
from their perspective as we revisit our mission and establish a new strategic plan. Across industries and around the world, ULS graduates positively impact their communities by displaying our Core Values of community, excellence, respect, integrity and empathy.
After graduating from ULS in 2012, Mostafa Shuva headed to the University of Michigan where he studied electrical engineering. He received his bachelor’s in 2016 and his master’s degree in 2019, and his graduate work focused on signal and image processing and control systems. He is currently an embedded software engineer at Ford Motor Company working on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) perception. MOSTAFA SHUVA ‘12 Embedded Software Engineer, Ford Motor Company
How did ULS help prepare you for your career? ULS helped me hone in on my passion for math. I think the over all rigor helped me avoid being blindsided by the heavy workload at college. Additionally I was able to establish good study habits that allowed me to explore and identify the techniques that helped me learn the best. What is your favorite part of your work at Ford Motor Company? My favorite part of working at Ford is that I get to be in control of what I work on, and my feedback is taken into account during the decision- making process. I also love being in Dearborn. What is your day-to-day life like in your current role? One of the things I love about my current role at Ford is that my day-to-day is spontaneous and varies. I typically spend my time between writing code, establishing test cases for the code, helping some of my
and one of the more practical ones, was taking a one-off math class with David Hartigan my senior year. It was a class with only four students, and we explored more advanced topics in math. Since the class was so small, and the lessons were focused on specific topics, we would often finish early and play euchre in class. That came full circle for me in college during one of my intro programming courses when we had to program a euchre game for one of our projects. What do you think makes the ULS community unique? In my opinion, ULS is unique because of its faculty. Even if you weren’t in a class with a specific teacher or staff member, they were still involved in the lives of the students whether it was through clubs, sports, or even just in passing. I think that’s what makes ULS a special place. You didn’t have to have a class with a specific teacher to just be able to crash into their room to study or to just talk.
colleagues with their individual tasks, attending meetings to either help resolve some issue or brainstorm design ideas, or simply reading a lot of documentation. Recently, I’ve been put in charge of a small team to help optimize our software and provide backend support as we approach our software deadlines. It’s a new area for me, as all my previous roles have been as an individual contributor. Who are some of the faculty, staff and school leaders you looked up to while at ULS? David Dwaihy, David Backhurst, and everyone’s favorite, Shernaz Minwalla were the teachers I looked up to the most. I remember spending considerable time talking to Mr. Dwaihy during my tour of ULS before enrolling as a freshman. What are some of your favorite memories of your time at ULS? Two memories stick out to me: The first was making ice cream in Benjamin Lampe’s physics class with liquid nitrogen. The second memory,
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