作者：刘国瑞
　　【Abstract】In the process of the development of the society， the civil engineering industry has developed constantly for which the demand for the students of civil engineering is increasing rapidly. Therefore， to make all the students have the professional and practical abilities to meet the needs of the civil engineering industry for social development， a lot of colleges have strengthened the innovation of the teaching methods. Only by innovating can students fundamentally broaden their professional horizons， enrich their professional knowledge and exercise their professional skills. This paper mainly focuses on the improvement and innovation strategies of the civil engineering majors that aims to provide some references for its teaching in subsequent teaching activities.
　　【key words】teaching methods； civil engineering； innovation
　　【作者簡介】刘国瑞，西南交通大学希望学院。
　　As an inevitable trend of the engineering teaching， the education of innovation can reform the teaching modes fundamentally， help students improve their ability of thinking and creation. At the same time， it can also encourage students to participate in practicing. It can promote the application of innovative knowledge in students’ practice and help students to get better development if we can apply the awareness of the innovation into education. Therefore， innovation education is very important in the reform of civil engineering education.
　　1. Analysis of current teaching methods of civil engineering
　　The goal of civil engineering teaching is to constantly train students’ practical ability and creative ability， so as to promote students’ employment and cultivate talents for the civil engineering industry. However， there is still a big gap between the reality and the goal. Problems are as follows：
　　1.1 The backward teaching mode leads to the lack of enthusiasm of students
　　Currently， the teaching mode of civil engineering is mainly to follow the traditional teaching mode whose characteristics is students do not have any right to speak during the whole teaching process， and teachers only teach the theoretical knowledge to students and do not pay attention to students’ feedback.
　　This over-traditional teaching method will decrease the passion of students， for which students will become tired of learning about these theoretical knowledge that is not conducive to the improvement of the teaching effect. In addition，， limited by the shortage of practical equipment resources in colleges， the teaching process of civil engineering still has some problems such as backward experimental equipment and insufficient quantity.