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Welcome to Ranken
To the nearly 2,000 students taking their seats, meeting their instructors and classmates, organizing their schedules, and familiarizing themselves with campus layouts and classroom locations.... we welcome you to Ranken and share in your excitement as you build the next chapters in your lives. Faculty and staff, alumni, volunteers, community partners, business leaders, and your fellow students are resources and supporters. Each of our locations offers unique opportunities, but we are all part of the Ranken family.
For those of you who have experienced Ranken life already, you know the feeling of anticipation and the opportunities. New programs are being created, new equipment and tools are being introduced, new challenges are ahead. But, like the first day of class back in 1907, we remain dedicated to supporting each student's education journey with focus and respect for trade and technology. Welcome to Ranken.
Learn more about Ranken Technical College, our programs, and our locations by visiting our website HERE, or join us at one of our upcoming Ranken events including open houses, Ranken Experience, Manufacturing Day, and Shadow - A - Tech. open houses, Ranken Experience events to meet faculty and staff and tour. Click HERE for dates and details at each of our locations.
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2024 Enrollment Highlights
- Nearly 2,000 students across 5 locations
- Each location offers day and evening classes
- Ranken is proud to serve 142 Military Veterans this school year
- Ranken has students from 14 states including California, Florida, and Rhode Island
- There are currently 140 students living in the Walker Residence Hall on the St. Louis campus
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Summer Racer ready to hit the course | Ranken President Don Pohl talking with architecture campers | Ranken campers create an airbrush car hood design for Emerson | Shannon Brueggemann, Ranken Vice President for Education, with a camp t-shirt produced by Shirtlaunch, owned and operated by Ranken graduate Robert Hamm | |
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Ranken Summer Adventure
In the blink of an eye, another summer has come and gone, leaving only memories. But for 200 youth who attended Ranken’s Summer Adventure Academy, today’s memories are leading to tomorrow’s dreams, and maybe a dream job!
This July, Ranken hosted camps for middle school students at each of our five locations, including our new mid-Missouri location in Ashland. Camps offered a wide array of STEM-based subjects that included robotics, agriculture using aquaponics, welding, machining and engineering design, architecture, woodworking, and automotive/racing. Ranken’s camps introduce new and exciting learning opportunities that ignite the creativity and imagination of STEM-based learning, and potentially a technical career path.
Highlights included students in Airbrushing Paint FX showing their skills by painting signs and a custom car hood emblazoned with the logo of camp sponsor Emerson. Campers in Design and Engineering made candles by milling and building a custom mold from a block of aluminum, demonstrating several processes of the Advanced Precision Machining program. MakerSpace students used computers to design and 3-D print objects that included cars, buildings, and farm tractors. Summer Racers learned to build, and race go carts, turning the Walker Hall parking lot into a Grand Prix raceway!
This year’s expanded camp offerings were supported through a generous grant from Emerson. As a long-time supporter, Emerson understands the value of technical education and the importance of igniting the imagination of youth for STEM-based careers. Through Emerson’s support, Ranken will be able to offer a new hands-on automotive camp featuring EV technology next summer.
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Dave Munie, Plumbing Department Chair, working with a student in a hands-on lab | |
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT:
Dave Munie
Dave Munie, Plumbing Department Chair at Ranken Technical College, is also known simply as "Dave The Plumber." He is a Master Plumber, a Ranken graduate, and a wealth of knowledge. He hasn't met a stranger, he is quick to problem solve, and he encourages ingenuity in his students. Meet Dave Munie.
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"You don't know what you don't know.... until you know."
Dave Munie approaches plumbing education pragmatically, but with humor. He gives students a comprehensive and real-world understanding of the craft. They apply those lessons learned day one on a job site. He shows them how important it is to be hands-on in their labs and trouble shoot, because they need to be ready for the unexpected. "You don't know what you don't know... until you know."
Dave comes from a family of respected and accomplished plumbers. Dave is a Ranken graduate himself, class of 1990. His father Roger Munie was a Ranken graduate (class of 1965), and his brother Mark is the Service Manager at Beloman in Belleville, IL. Between just those three men, they have decades of experience being ready for many "unexpected" challenges. That is why plumbing is a passion for him, each day is new, and he instills pride in his students.
Dave joined the Ranken staff as Plumbing Department Chair and Instructor in 2015, and brought with him incalculable experience in all facets of the plumbing industry including decades as a member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 101 in Belleville, Illinois. He has done extensive work in residential, industrial, and commercial projects. He has been an entrepreneur, running his own plumbing business which had him wearing several hats (finance, program, HR, to name just a few.)
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Dave Munie and Ranken Graduates | Dave Munie at Ranken Open House | |
Dave Munie (R) and his
father Roger Munie
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"Plumbers face some unique situations, it is not just unclogging!"
Dave has translated his personal experience as both client service and technical expert into education experiences for a new generation of plumbing experts. And when he leads a tour of the department? No one leaves without feeling excited and having a better understanding of the work. It is the Munie way.
"Plumbers face some unique situations, it is not just unclogging!" said Munie. "We prepare students to work on sites that could be new construction or historic buildings. The codes, the materials, the weather... all play factors. We prepare them to troubleshoot, be thorough, and to have pride in their work."
As a new group of students start their first semester at Ranken, we asked Dave what is his favorite part of being an educator and working with students. With his trademark enthusiasm he answered "By far... the day they get their first job."
Learn more about the educational opportunities offered at Ranken Technical College, including Plumbing Technology, by clicking HERE.
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RANKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE
4431 Finney Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63113
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