Technician

A technician is a worker in a field of technology who is proficient in the relevant skill and technique,[1] with a relatively practical understanding of the theoretical principles.[2]

Airplane technician working on an airplane's wing

Specialisation

The term technician covers many different specialisations. These include:

Campaigns

In the UK, a shortage of skilled technicians in the science, engineering and technology sectors[3][4] has led to various campaigns to encourage more people to become technicians and to promote the role of technician.

Technician and Customer
gollark: While it is capable™ of effectively setting `innerHTML` internally, this would make the links not work properly.
gollark: My application™ is a single-page app™ and the UI™ renders to virtual DOM™.
gollark: Based on my extremely unscientific benchmarks, markdown-it would be about twice as fast, but it's not really as customizable, doesn't produce a parse tree I can use for stuff, and produces HTML directly, which is not ideal.
gollark: I disabled an extension for *tab counting* which was apparently insanely inefficient and got a 150ms saving, though.
gollark: Mayhapß™ I should just use a background thread thing (browsers can totally™ do that) for markdown handling.

See also

References

  1. dictionary.cambridge.org
  2. "Technician". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  3. Report for The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
  4. Report for HEFCE
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