Editing Marc Garneau (section)

==Education and military career==
Garneau graduated from the [[Royal Military College of Canada]] in 1970 with a [[Bachelor of Science|bachelor of science]] in [[engineering physics]] and began his career in the [[Canadian Armed Forces|Canadian Forces]] [[Royal Canadian Navy|Maritime Command]].<ref name="bio">{{cite web|title=Marc Garneau Biography|url=http://marcgarneau.liberal.ca/en/biography/|access-date=December 12, 2011|publisher=Liberal Party of Canada}}</ref>

In 1973 he received a PhD in electrical engineering from the [[Imperial College of Science and Technology]] in [[London]], England. His thesis was entitled "The Perception of Facial Images". The [[Photofit]] [[analogue computer]] was used by him to discriminate facial features.<ref name="garneau73">{{cite book|last1=Garneau|first1=Marc Jean-Pierre|url=https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/20424/2/Garneau-MJ-1973-PhD-Thesis.pdf|title=The Perception of Facial Images|date=1973|publisher=Imperial College of Science and Technology|location=London}}</ref>

In 1974, Garneau served as a naval combat systems engineer aboard {{HMCS|Algonquin|DDG 283|6}}.

From 1982 to 1983, he attended the [[Canadian Forces College|Canadian Forces Command and Staff College]] in Toronto. While there, he was promoted to the rank of [[Commander (Canada)|commander]] and was transferred to Ottawa in 1983. In January 1986, he was promoted to [[Captain (Canadian naval rank)|captain(N)]]. Garneau retired from the Canadian Forces in 1989.<ref name="bio" />