Bringing an engineering lab into social sciences: didactic approach and an experiential evaluation

In this work we explore the challenge and experience of developing skills that are typical of information and communications engineering but linked to cybersecurity in an unusual academic context within the branch of social sciences, specifically for law and criminology students. We examine the prior assumptions regarding the technical issues evaluated, the result of putting the designed laboratory into practice, and also student satisfaction with the experience. The engineering skills-based experiences should be incorporated transversally into other subjects of non-technological sciences. Our research contributes experience along these lines, and inspires confidence in this respect for the new and ever more digitally native batches of students.