Why engineering degrees teach forensic reconstruction

Can a student study forensic engineering in the United Kingdom?

Usually through modules within civil or mechanical engineering rather than a dedicated degree, because reconstruction from existing structures is a practical repair skill.

Britain does not generally treat forensic engineering as a single undergraduate degree path. Universities instead incorporate the method into civil- and mechanical-engineering teaching, with Kingston offered as one example. Engineers sometimes confront an existing structure without complete plans and must work backward from what was built before deciding how it can be repaired. Forensic reconstruction is therefore both an engineering skill and a useful analogue for historical method.