Project Support

Founded in 1949, the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association is a member-supported non-profit organization dedicated to environmental protection in the 265 square mile region drained by the Stony Brook and the Millstone River in central New Jersey. Their efforts combine programs in land preservation and water quality research with activism and education for the local community. On its property in Pennington, NJ, SBMWA operates the Buttinger Nature Center, originally designed as a single story residence in the 1970s, to promote its environmental stewardship practices through educational programs and displays, with hopes that community members will follow the practices of SBMWA. Through its partnership with Princeton University, SBMWA aims to make their nature center a model of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Using displays and demonstrations, these efforts will assist SBMWA to promote environmentally responsible decision-making and practices at the local level.

The Princeton Greentrofit ™ team works together in the context of an EPICS course, administered by Princeton's Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, with support from Princeton's Community Based Learning Initiative. EPICS, "Engineering Projects in Community Service", is a national consortium of universities implementing an educational model founded at Purdue in 1995. The EPICS program is designed to bring together students from across the university to solve technical problems for local not-for-profit organizations. Students work on a real-life problem, thereby providing the organizations with a valuable technical resource.

Faculty Advisor: Catherine A. Peters, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering.