Innovator

Innovators will usually have four main goals:
- Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
- Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
- Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.
Technician

Technicians will often be asked these tasks:
- Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
- Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
Other work activities related to Computer science teachers, postsecondary
- Maintaining computer equipment used in instruction.
- Evaluating and grading students’ class working, laboratory working, assignments, and papers.
- Maintaining student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
- Preparing and delivering lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as programming, data structures, and software design.
- Preparing course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Compiling, administering, and grading examinations or assigning this working to others.
- Keeping abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Initiating, facilitating, and moderating classroom discussions.
- Planning, evaluating, and revising curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.
- Supervising students’ laboratory working.
- Maintaining regularly scheduled office hours to advising and assisting students.