"Program for Educating and Training Excellence Engineers" is a critical reform measures for engineering education in China. As an applied and practical discipline, rock mechanics is a typical cross-industry course. At present, there exist such problems as despising basic concepts, chaos standards, slighting engineering capability in teaching process of rock mechanics. A teaching reform scheme is put forward based on teaching practice of civil engineering, including specific measures such as modularizing teaching contents, thinking highly of basic concepts, cooperating with coal mines and so on. These teaching innovations achieve a good effect, so they are of guiding significance for other similar major courses in civil engineering.