围绕如何提高钢结构设计原理课程教学效率进行了探讨.合理安排学时,一方面强调理论教学，使学生掌握钢结构设计基本理论，另一方面加强实践教学环节，培养学生工程实践能力.目的是培养适应当代社会的专业人才.

Discussions on how to improve teaching efficiency of the course of principles of steel structure design are presented in this paper.The credit hours are reasonably arranged,thus the theory teaching is emphasized and the students can firmly grasp the basic theory on steel structure design.Meanwhile,the practice teaching is enhanced and the students are trained with practical engineering.The purpose is to develop the specialists who meet the requirement of modern society.