2025 Summer Internship — Wind Driven Rain Internship

The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) is seeking interns to join our team this summer. As an IBHS intern, you’ll contribute to our mission of strengthening homes, businesses, and communities against severe weather—which means making a difference in the lives of real people. You’ll also work for a world-class organization where integrity and hard work are valued and where crash-testing homes and buildings is all part of the plan for discovering better building methods. 
Learn more about IBHS at ibhs.org and hear what former interns have to say about their experience at ibhs.org/intern-with-ibhs. 

What You’ll Learn 
As a Wind Driven Rain intern, you’ll get experience in supporting IBHS’s research including, but not limited to:
Support for Wind Driven Rain (WDR) project (a major part of strategy 26):
        ◦ Support for technical design, and instrumentation of wind driven rain (WDR) apparatus and demonstration area.
        ◦ Design of spray rack and nozzle system for WDR apparatus.
        ◦ Desktop studies on weather bureau wind and rain data to determine WDR hazard maps for the current IBHS collaboration with Cornell University.
        ◦ Analysis of data from IBHS Precipitation Imaging Probe (PIP) Tower to inform desktop studies
    • Preparation of a general-purpose wind tunnel analysis MATLAB functions for use by the research team.

Skills Requirements:

This internship position is for research driven Undergraduate or master’s students in Civil/Mechanical Engineering or Meteorology to Support IBHS’s current work in developing its Wind Driven Rainwater ingress testing capabilities for the testing of building envelopes.

This project will also involve the analysis of existing wind and rain records and precipitation imaging probe data to determine representative wind and rain records for testing. In parallel, the candidate will also work on a library of general-purpose wind tunnel analysis programs that will be used for future work at the IBHS full scale test chamber. A sound background in programming languages e.g. MATALB or Python is required for data analysis and skills and enthusiasm for hands-on laboratory work is also desired

Preferred Majors: 
Undergraduate or Postgraduate students in 

• Civil Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Meteorology 

Commitment to Diversity 
IBHS is committed to creating and maintaining a workplace in which all employees have an opportunity to participate and contribute to the success of the business and are valued for their skills, experience, and unique perspectives. 

Applicants should be authorized to work in the US.  All positions are located on site, five days/week at the named location. This is approximately a 10-week program working 40 hours/week.

​​​​​Drug‐free Workplace, Equal Opportunity Employer & E‐Verify Employer 

Job Types: Full-time, Internship 

Ability to commute/relocate: Richburg, SC. Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required).

Work Location: One location