As an important and basic course of civil engineering, soil mechanics has a wide range of contents and complex basic concepts, which puts forward higher requirements for students’ theoretical level besides theoretical mechanics, material mechanics, structural mechanics and other knowledge. Under the current background of new engineering, applied colleges and universities have put forward new requirements for engineering students. As a basic course of civil engineering, soil mechanics is of great significance to the training of students majoring in civil engineering. Aiming at some problems in soil mechanics education in recent years, based on CDIO mode, combined with the virtual simulation technology of BIM and the connotation of higher soil mechanics, the solutions are put forward in order to provide reference for the teaching reform of soil mechanics in colleges and universities.

Due to the issues of weak practical ability of students, ineffective curriculum teaching, this paper attempts to make a preliminary reform on concrete structural design principle course for undergraduate colleges based on the shortcomings of the course of concrete structural principle design: after reform, students will become as the main body of teaching link. Starting from the pathway of theory and practice and bring students into the lab and let them participate in scientific research activities to enrich their practice ability through optimizing the blackboard teaching pattern and introducing the new media supplementary teaching for enhancing the teaching efficiency. Our school also implemented the teaching activities of concrete structure design principle under the new mode for undergraduate students in 2015 and 2016. The students’ achievements and practical ability have been improved to a certain extent and good teaching results have been achieved. The authors try to provide some suggestions for the teaching reform of concrete structural design principle course in undergraduate colleges.

“New Engineering” is an engineering education reform carried out in China under the background of a new round of industrial technology revolution, which puts forward higher requirements for students’ engineering practical ability and innovative thinking. Civil engineering construction course is one of the important required modules for civil engineering majors, which has the characteristics of complex course content, lack of connection between chapters, and less practical knowledge. The traditional teaching model cannot effectively adapt to the curriculum, leading students to lack of practical ability, interest and other problems. Starting with the educational concept of “New Engineering”, this paper analyzes the problems in the current teaching process of civil engineering construction course, and puts forward the corresponding teaching reform measures to provide reference.

Teachers should take the initiative to develop specialties of students and drive the progress of the curriculum. The traditional course of civil engineering materials has some obvious problems such as redundant course content, unreasonable scoring assessment mechanism, and low output of post-class practice. As a result, students in the classroom are less motivated and do not get insight into the understanding of this course. To conquer these limitations, this paper aims to optimize the traditional teaching system from three aspects: (1) the teaching method of course teaching, (2) the course evaluation system and (3) the extracurricular practice output. In addition, it also helps to carry out teaching activities for students based on the perspective of individuality and interaction as well as cultivate applied talents. This paper also provides a reference for the innovative teaching model.