Ernst Rudolph Georg Eckert (September 13, 1904 – July 8, 2004) was an Austrian American engineer and scientist who advanced the film cooling technique for aeronautical engines.
[4] Eckert worked as a jet engine scientist at the Hermann Göring Aviation Research Institute near Braunschweig, Germany, then via Operation Paperclip, began jet propulsion research in 1945 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
In 1951, Eckert joined the University of Minnesota in the department of mechanical engineering.
In 1995 the National Academy of Engineering honored Eckert with its thirteenth Founders Award.
[4] Eckert's son-in-law Horst Henning Winter, a specialist in rheology, is professor at UMass Amherst.