土木工程专业结构模型设计大赛已成为培养大学生创新能力、实践能力和竞争意识的一个新兴实践教学环节。文章从结构模型竞赛中材料选用和设计原则的角度出发，分析了结构模型竞赛在培养学生创新能力、计算能力和综合素质等方面发挥的作用，探讨模型制作应注意的问题以及与实际工程的关系，对未来结构模型竞赛发展方向提出建议。

The structure model design competition has become a new process of practical teaching in civil engineering. The material selection and design principles in structure model design competition were introduced, the function of model competition for training undergraduates’ innovation ability, computing ability and comprehensive quality was analyzed, some key problems in model making and its relationship with practical engineering were discussed, and some suggestions were proposed to promote the development of structure model design competition.