 He received his PhD from ETH Zurich in 1927.After completing his PhD, Ackeret worked at Escher Wyss AG in Zurich as Chief Engineer of Hydraulics, where he applied, with great success, modern aerodynamics to the design of turbines.He became a professor of Aerodynamics at ETH Zurich in 1931 where Wernher von Braun was one of his students.