This work follows the contemporary discussions on how to approach the translation technologies in the education of professional translators. This study starts with an analysis of a perceived distance between university education and professional practice in the strict framework of translators training and education, and then investigates the role that current approaches to translation technology play in that scenario. Therefore, as a theoretical and methodological basis, this work uses postulates from Translation Studies on the object of their descriptive and applied branches, and from the translation pedagogy studies on translational competences, to propose a mode of inserting technology in the translator education process. Then, the translation technologies are included in the modern context of Science and Technology Studies in their descriptive aspects - notably the Science, Technology and Society (STS) studies, and the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) approach - in order to check expectations on translation processes and results associated with the intensive presence of translation technologies. Finally, based on the interrelations found during investigations, this study suggests an approach to translation technology at the university that would contribute to distinguish the university, reduce the distance perceived between university education and translation practice, and highlight the academic translation research as protagonist within the Digital Humanities studies.