Dr. Syed Ahmad Helmi is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and is a fellow in the UTM Centre for Engineering Education. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Engineering Education. He is among the first cohort of graduates of the PhD in Engineering Education program from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. A practitioner of problem-based learning (PBL), he regularly conducts courses to train academics in effective implementation of student-centered learning techniques. Prior to joining UTM, he worked as an engineer in industries, such as INTEL and SIME-DARBY. He won the best paper award at the 2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference in Amman, Jordan, and two gold medals in the i-PHEX 2014 Innovative Practices in Higher Education Exposition. His research areas are on student centered learning, problem solving in engineering, manufacturing systems and optimization, and systems dynamic modelling.