Once worked at a large corp that called these "Arthurs" (after Arthur Anderson). The executives would order them up in bulk, as in "Project X needs 80 for the next six months".

Once, to meet deadline (and thus $$$) on integrating two alarming systems, they had an Arthur watch for alarms 24x7 on system one and manually type each one into system two. You won't learn that sort of thing at university.