{"615969":{"#nid":"615969","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Engineering Their Own Path ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo students. Two very different journeys to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne starting in a neighboring county; the other, from all the way across the country.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth, however, used a similar pathway: The Regents\u0026rsquo; Engineering Transfer Program (RETP).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERETP was established in 1986 by the University System of Georgia to promote engineering education. The program provides a helping hand to students by allowing them to begin college at another university to establish a core math and science curriculum before transferring to a school with their preferred engineering field of study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth Angelique McCoy and Alec Herbert are earning their degrees after coming to Georgia Tech through the RETP program. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/their-own-path?utm_campaign=daily-digest\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_source=dd-article:10178%7C2019-01-04\u0022\u003EHere\u0026rsquo;s how it happened\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo students. Two very different journeys to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne starting in a neighboring county; the other, from all the way across the country.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two students. Two very different journeys to Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2019-01-07 13:55:01","changed_gmt":"2019-01-07 13:55:33","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}