Dr. Rashied Amini, chief engineer for the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, will talk about how NASA plans space missions that take decades and billions of dollars, and how you can use NASA’s workflow to help define sharper questions, connect them to your methods, and clarify how your success will be achieved and evaluated.
Location:
Johnson 303
Event Date: Oct. 21, 2026
NASA science exploration missions are rare, expensive, and often one-of-a-kind. When you’ve spent years (or decades) and millions (or billions) of dollars, you can’t afford to have vague goals and a loosely defined strategy. Every component, line of software, and operational activity must be tied to the scientific ambition driving the mission and assuring its safe execution. To make this possible, NASA relies on structured ways of thinking to logically connect big ideas to their execution and communicate that logic clearly to stakeholders.
But what NASA does is broadly applicable to anyone who is trying to tackle big problems. Whether or you are proposing new experiments, developing new business strategies, or crafting better policies - this talk pulls back the veil on NASA’s workflow to help you define sharper questions, connect them to your methods, and clarify how your success will be achieved and evaluated.
About Rashied Amini
Rashied Amini is the chief engineer for ExEP, the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program. He is responsible for engineering and technical oversight and support for all ExEP activities. Dr. Amini received a Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in physics from Washington University in St. Louis.
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