Development of Capstone Projects on Secure Communications for Engineering Students

A capstone project is a compulsory requirement for passing the last course and obtaining the bachelor’s degree. In order to make students develop their own self-learning capabilities, it is important to offer them real life projects, helping them in the process of combining already acquired information with new knowledge. In this contribution, we present the details of a real capstone project about secure communications in order to illustrate the capstone project process.This work has been partially supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) under the grant TEC2009-13964-C04-02, by Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (Spain), in collaboration with CDTI and Telefónica I+D under the project Segur@, CENIT-2007 2004, and by the Project FS/5-2009 from “Fundación Memoria D. Samuel Solórzano Barruso”Peer reviewe