entire institutions have been designing pbl curricula and new pbl programmes and courses have been adopted and further developed by institutions and educators around the world shifting the curriculum from a facultycentred approach to a more studentcentred interdisciplinary process barrett and moore barrows and tamblyn in the united states stanford university is involved with pbl in several departments in varying degrees for example at the pbl laboratory department of civil and environmental engineering multidisciplinary geographically distributed teams each project team member has a unique area of expertise stanford university has also launched a specific nondegree teaching centre the dschool to unblock students imagination creativity and innovation box