工程力学是土木工程学科的专业基础课，通过教学方式的创新来改善教学效果，对增强学生职业能力具有重要意义。文章介绍了在教学改革中进行的六个方面尝试：引导学生树立正确的职业道德观与人生观，增强与工程实践的关联性，增加开放式大作业以改进成绩考核体系，建立与后续课程内容的联系，增强实验的多样性，以及鼓励学生参加力学竞赛等。实践结果表明这些措施受到了学生的欢迎和认可，能有效加强和提高学生的职业能力。

Engineering mechanics is the basic course in civil engineering. The students’professional competence can be enhanced by teaching method reform. This article describes six aspects in the teaching reform attempts: inducing the students to establish correct view of life and professional ethics, enhancing the relationship between learning and engineering practice, improving the evaluation system by the way of open homework, establishing the relationship with following courses, improving the diversity of experimental contents, improving the student competency in mechanics competitions. These attempts show that these measures were recognized by the students,and can effectively strengthen the professional competence.