{"686896":{"#nid":"686896","#data":{"type":"news","title":"60 Years Later, Finally Another Yellow Jacket in the Family","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Cole Rogers got the notice four years ago that he\u2019d been moved off the waitlist and admitted to Georgia Tech, he knew exactly who to call first.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis grandfather, Peter Petrecca, had studied aerospace engineering at Tech and had a long career in aviation, engineering, and product development. No one would celebrate the news more, so Rogers called him with the news before he even told his parents.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPetrecca had raised three daughters and exposed them to engineering and making things. But none had been interested enough to make it a career \u2014 or study at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThen Cole came along, and I had another opportunity,\u201d Petrecca said. \u201cWe made model cars and motorcycles together and did other things. I wasn\u0027t sure he was going to go the engineering route, but I was thrilled when he got accepted.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow Rogers is graduating with his \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eindustrial engineering bachelor\u2019s degree\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and in the sometimes funny way history echoes itself, he\u2019ll walk across the stage exactly 60 years after his grandfather finished his own degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a path that probably has been quietly paved throughout Rogers\u2019 life, during all his visits to his grandfather\u2019s house.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the full story \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/60-years-later-finally-another-yellow-jacket-family\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECole Rogers is graduating with his industrial engineering bachelor\u0027s degree, and in the sometimes funny way history echoes itself, he\u2019ll walk across the stage exactly 60 years after his grandfather finished his own degree.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Peter Petrecca has been the lone Georgia Tech engineer in his family for decades. That changes in December when his grandson graduates exactly 60 years after Petrecca finished his degree."}],"uid":"36736","created_gmt":"2025-12-16 07:12:08","changed_gmt":"2025-12-16 07:16:44","author":"ebrown386","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678845":{"id":"678845","type":"image","title":"Cole Rogers (IE 2025) - Fall Commencement","body":null,"created":"1765869262","gmt_created":"2025-12-16 07:14:22","changed":"1765869262","gmt_changed":"2025-12-16 07:14:22","alt":"Cole Rogers (IE 2025) - Fall Commencement","file":{"fid":"262934","name":"Peter-Petrecca-Cole-Rogers-Commencement-Fall2025.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/12\/16\/Peter-Petrecca-Cole-Rogers-Commencement-Fall2025.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/12\/16\/Peter-Petrecca-Cole-Rogers-Commencement-Fall2025.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":157210,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/12\/16\/Peter-Petrecca-Cole-Rogers-Commencement-Fall2025.jpg?itok=hiNqPgVO"}}},"media_ids":["678845"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/60-years-later-finally-another-yellow-jacket-family\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering News - Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}