Raphael Haftka

Raphael T. Haftka (; February 22, 1944 – August 16, 2020) was an American engineer, a distinguished professor at University of Florida and an Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Raphael T. Haftka was born on February 22, 1944, in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He earned his B.Sc. in aeronautical engineering in 1965 and his M.Sc. in 1968 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In 1971, he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.