This article describes how to develop and implement a tool that enables engineering students to acquire soft-skills taking advantage of the purely technical engineering educational tasks. Delphi Learning Package (DLP) tool is based on a Delphi strategic consulting method. Generally, this method is used to obtain long-term forecasts from knowledge of groups of experts. Some adjustments have been made to Delphi method in order to apply it to learning and acquiring soft-skills in engineering. For instance, this tool can be used to guide students toward obtaining key parameters for a technical matter or to find the best solutions to an intricate multiple-solution problem. Thus, students will have to use not only knowledge learned on the subject of engineering, but also knowledge resulting from handling-related documentation. By tackling a multiplesolution problem, students develop different soft skills such as critical thinking, synthesis ability, inference, and argumentation. In order to judge the value of this tool, two pilot projects have been developed involving fourth year students with a major in Telecommunications Engineering. This tool can be used freely by contacting the authors of this article. ß

Resumen: La misión PAZ surge ante la necesidad de un satélite SAR español que pueda proporcionar productos imagen radar para usuarios de seguridad y defensa, civiles y científicos. INTA es el responsable de la dirección técnica del Segmento Terreno, así como del desarrollo y operación del Centro de Calibración y Validación y de la Explotación Científica. Dentro de este ámbito de explotación, se desarrolla un demostrador de aplicaciones SAR marítimas (DeMSAR) como herramienta robusta capaz de llevar a cabo tareas de detección sobre la superficie marina, empleando las imágenes adquiridas por radares de apertura sintética. Se desarrolla bajo un marco de colaboración entre el INTA y la Universidad de Alcalá con el fin de convertirse en un demostrador de las capacidades de los sistemas aerotransportados de INTA y, en el futuro, para procesar los datos adquiridos por el sensor PAZ. Con capacidad de operar en modo automático de detección de barcos o mediante librerías de procesado SAR, DeMSAR ofrece una gran versatilidad al usuario en tareas de procesado tales como filtrado de ruido speckle, detección de líneas de costa, estimación de máscaras de tierra y detección y caracterización de barcos.Palabras clave: SAR, speckle, segmentación, detección de barcos, aplicaciones marítimas. Scientific exploitation of PAZ products in coastal surveillance and monitoring tasksAbstract: PAZ mission appears due to the need of a Spanish SAR satellite able to provide radar image products for security and defense, civil and scientific users. INTA is responsible for the technical direction of the Ground Segment, as well as the development of the Calibration and Validation Centre and the scientific exploitation. The 'Demonstrator of Maritime SAR Applications' is proposed as an answer to detection tasks in maritime synthetic aperture radar imagery, which are not completely solved yet. DeMSAR has been developed in the framework of a contract between the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) and the University of Alcalá. It is intended to be used as a demonstrator of the capabilities of the airborne SAR prototypes of INTA as well as for PAZ, the Spanish SAR satellite. With two operation modes, an automatic ship detector and a toolboxes mode, DeMSAR offers the user a high flexibility in SAR data processing tasks such as speckle filtering, coastline detection, land mask estimation and ship detection and characterization.