The day includes a picnic lunch and opportunities for a Corporate Sponsor to interact with students and faculty. The McIntire Mentor Program was established in 1996 to provide an open line of communication between third and fourth-year students on both an academic and social level. In the past, over 80 fourth year students have volunteered to serve as mentors. The mentors initially meet with incoming students during Third-Year Orientation. Third Year Orientation is a one-day event held the day before classes begin.
New students meet with mentors and faculty members in the blocks in which they are enrolled.
Time is spent interacting and sharing information related to curriculum issues and student services. Opportunities exist for a Corporate Sponsor to set up a booth for the day and to provide one or more speakers. ICE addresses real business problems and projects over the entire year, eliminating artificial functional constraints, overlap, and redundancy. It creates an applied, flexible, and innovative learning environment rather than the traditional, rigid, and compartmentalized functional curriculum. ICE enhances our students understanding of both the general management and the functional roles played by business leaders in a wide variety of innovative industries, organizations, and positions.