[3] He attended the local school in Wabbaseka until 10th grade when he transferred to Columbia Military Academy, Tennessee joining the ROTC.

[6][4] In 1967, Bogy interviewed with Paul Naghdi at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he has spent his entire career.

[1] Around 1972, Bogy took a summer position at IBM Research Almaden where he collaborated with Frank Talke[7] and was introduced to magnetic recording as a discipline.

By 1984, Bogy was actively working on Hard Disk Drive mechanics contracted out from the newly established Center for Magnetic Recording Research at UC San Diego.

[8] By 1989, Bogy had taken the initiative and established the Computer Mechanics Laboratory (CML)[2] at Berkeley specifically to support the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry.

[1] In 2010, Bogy received the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award for "leadership, education and technical contributions in the mechanics and tribiology of magnetic recording disk drives".

[19][20] Other contemporary awardees in HDD technology include Al Shugart, Mark Kryder, Chris Bajorek, and Mason Williams.