Abstract:

We come across a wide range of people from different backgrounds in the culture we live in today. This might happen at any campus organization, at your work, during a group assignment, or in the classroom. It is crucial to understand emotional/positive intelligence to work productively and communicate with people to develop positive relationships. The capacity to understand, demonstrate, regulate, assess, and use emotions in order to interact with and communicate with people in an effective and positive way is known as emotional intelligence (EI). This paper presents a more extensive EI domain known as positive intelligence (PI). PI was taught to engineering graduate students at the University of the District of Columbia via a MECH 500 Research Method and Technical communication course from 2018-2022. Students have reported that having this PI knowledge helped them become better people holistically and positively impacted the way they understand others and various transactions. The purpose of this paper is to describe the various effects that learning about positive intelligence has created on university students' lives after they took the MECH 500 Course on Positive Intelligence. Students enrolled in Fall 2022 and several alums who have attended this course since 2018 were interviewed to share their perceptions. This paper discusses the analysis of students' perceptions and views and how they benefit from such psychology training via engineering curriculum in the long term.

Keywords:

Positive Intelligence, Transactional Analysis, Mechanical Engineering, Graduate Students, SPET.