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Technician vs. Engineer — What's the Difference?

Technician vs. Engineer — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Technician and Engineer

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Technician

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

Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost. The word engineer (Latin ingeniator) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to create, generate, contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").

Technician

A person employed to look after technical equipment or do practical work in a laboratory
A laboratory technician

Engineer

One who is trained or professionally engaged in a branch of engineering.

Technician

One whose occupation requires training in a specific technical process
An electronics technician.
An automotive technician.
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Engineer

One who operates an engine.

Technician

One who is known for skill in an intellectual or artistic technique.

Engineer

One who skillfully or shrewdly manages an enterprise.

Technician

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.
The lift technician found the reason the lift wasn't working.

Engineer

To plan, construct, or manage as an engineer.

Technician

A person trained or skilled in the technical details of a particular art or science, especially one skilled at operating, maintaining, or repairing equipment, in contrast to the theory or informational content of a craft; - formerly also called a technicist.

Engineer

To alter or produce by methods of genetic engineering
Bacteria that are genetically engineered to produce insulin.

Technician

Someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process

Engineer

To plan, manage, and bring about by skillful acts or contrivance
Engineer a business takeover.
Engineer social changes by legislation.

Technician

Someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique

Engineer

A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.

Engineer

(obsolete) A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.

Engineer

(by extension)

Engineer

A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.

Engineer

Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.

Engineer

A person trained to operate an engine; an engineman.

Engineer

Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
A political engineer

Engineer

A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.

Engineer

(transitive)

Engineer

To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.

Engineer

(specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).

Engineer

To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.

Engineer

(intransitive)

Engineer

To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.

Engineer

(rare) To work as an engineer.

Engineer

One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

Engineer

One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

Engineer

To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

Engineer

To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

Engineer

A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

Engineer

The operator of a railway locomotive

Engineer

Design as an engineer;
He engineered the water supply project

Engineer

Plan and direct (a complex undertaking);
He masterminded the robbery

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