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Junior Cycle Engineering: Ergonomics & design features

How often Ergonomics & design features comes up on the Engineering papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Ergonomics & design features, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Ergonomics & design features.

(a)What is ergonomics?
  1. Designing products to use less energy
  2. Designing products to suit the human body
  3. Designing products that are cheap to make
(b)Why do many hand tools have a soft, moulded rubber grip?
  1. It lets the tool conduct heat away
  2. It makes the tool heavier and stronger
  3. Comfort, and less chance of slipping
(c)Why is the driver's seat in a car adjustable?
  1. To fit drivers of different sizes
  2. To stop the seat fabric wearing out
  3. To reduce the weight of the car
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(a) Designing products to suit the human body

(b) Comfort, and less chance of slipping

(c) To fit drivers of different sizes

Your turn: Common Level questions on Ergonomics & design features.

Common Level

Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q3c, Q4a, Q4e
2025Q3e
2024Q3a
2023Q2a, Q3c
2022Q1b, Q1c

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Ergonomics & design features questions

Ergonomics & design features, 2 marks

When designers talk about the function of a product, what do they mean?

  1. The colour, shape and style of it
  2. The price it is sold at
  3. The job it is designed to do
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The job it is designed to do

Function is what the product must do, e.g. a bottle opener must remove a cap easily. Good design meets the function first, then ergonomics, aesthetics, safety and cost.

Ergonomics & design features, 3 marks

What is the crumple zone at the front of a car designed to do?

  1. Store the spare wheel safely
  2. Absorb crash energy to protect people
  3. Make the car body more streamlined
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Absorb crash energy to protect people

The front and rear crush in a controlled way in a crash, absorbing energy and slowing the impact, so less force reaches the people in the rigid passenger cell.

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