Victor Octavio Tenorio

Biography

Victor Tenorio received a B.S. in Mining Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a M.S. degree from University of Alaska Fairbanks. He obtained a Ph.D. at University of Arizona, in Tucson in 2012. His research focuses on Smart Mining and Decision Support Systems for optimizing productivity. He has worked on several engineering projects in Peru and Chile, and is currently a Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona, where he teaches Introduction to Mining Engineering, Mine Examination and Valuation, Digital Mining, and preparing Introduction to Moon Mining. He also participated in the Autonomous Mining Program with Freeport-McMoRan until December 2008. He has been Program Chair for the VII International Mining Industry Summit on Business Process Improvement in 2015. During 2016 and 2017 he was co-creator and leader of the Executive Mining Program, a full-year certification combining online lectures, live discussions and field trips for non-mining professionals. Since 2021 until present time, he has been coaching the Wildcat Moon Miners, formed by students developing Moon Mining projects for competitions sponsored by NASA.

Degrees

• Ph.D. Mining Engineering
• University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
• Measurement of the Effectiveness of a Decision Support System for Blending Control of Large Scale Coal Mines
• M.S. Mining Engineering
• University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
• Resource estimation for offshore deposits using Conditional Simulation and Statistical Learning Theory
• Engineering Degree Mining Engineering
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru
• Design of an Open Pit Mine using Computerized Modeling Techniques
• B.S. Mining Engineering
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru
• Diseño de una Mina a Cielo Abierto Utilizando Métodos de Modelamiento Computarizado - Design of an Open Pit Mine using Computerized Modeling Techniques

Awards

• James F. Bly Outstanding Faculty Award
• Mining and Geological Engineering Department, Fall 2016
• Award for Excellence at the Student Interface - Junior Faculty
• College of Engineering, Spring 2015
• Award for Excellence at the Student Interface
• College of Engineering, Spring 2014
• Outstanding Graduate Student in Mining and Geological Engineering
• College of Engineering, Spring 2010