Abstract
People have acquired leadership skills from long-term experience in workplace. In the age of rapid change, however, it is necessary to accelerate the process of acquiring leadership skills and make it possible for people to contribute as a leader as soon as possible. Leadership education in conjunction with real experience and pseudo experience with the use of simulator will provide people with experience as well as knowledge and accelerate the process of acquiring leadership skills. Project management education has been introduced to graduate schools of information and those of construction engineering. Education on technical knowledge area, such as scope, time, cost, quality, and procurement management, can be effective through lectures and proper exercises. For human skill and leadership education, however, such conventional educational approach with lectures and exercises is not effective for students who do not have much real life experience. To improve leadership ability of graduate students in technical research activities, we introduce a new educational approach which links a variety of pseudo experience with real actions of students in university research and engineering activities. This education links knowledge, pseudo experience and real action to improve students' leadership ability.
