Alumni spotlight: Muhamed Stilic at home at John Deere

“To be a Cyclone Engineer is to have the will to keep on pushing forward and an incredible mind to come up with unique ideas.” – Muhamed Stilic (’22 software engr)

Current position and responsibilities

I am an Embedded Software Engineer for an obstacle intelligence team at John Deere. My responsibilities are primarily working on embedded systems to implement obstacle intelligence on construction equipment.

Memorable research project

My most memorable research project I worked on was the LAUNCH program at Iowa State to create the paper “Elucidation and Analysis of Specification Patterns in Aerospace System Telemetry.”

What will you remember most about your time at Iowa State?

I will say the most memorable part of the research project was working with a lot of interesting equipment. As well as the trip down to California to present our research to the Nasa Formal Methods (NFM) symposium. That symposium really opened my eyes to a lot of amazing projects being created all around the world and programs like NFM make it happen.

Who were any mentors(faculty, advisors, peers) that helped you along your journey?

My mentors that helped me a lot on my journey was Dr. Rozier for all of the exciting research involvement at Iowa State University. As well as Dr. Zambreno for helping me out to get my foot into getting an internship. It also primarily goes out to everyone that was in the Electric Computer and Software Engineers for Leaders (ECSEL) program, everyone there helped me tremendously pave my way during my journey at Iowa State and beyond.

What does it mean to be a Cyclone Engineer?

 For me, what it means to be a Cyclone Engineer is to have the will to keep on pushing forward and an incredible mind to come up with unique ideas.