岩土工程专业竞赛对培养适应时代要求的土木工程专业创新和实践型人才具有重要的作用。本文通过具体赛例分析，详细阐述了岩土工程竞赛对培养大学生创新能力和实践能力产生的作用；同时岩土工程专业竞赛与实际工程的紧密结合，能够提升大学生基本专业素质与专业技能，培养大学生创新意识与合作精神，锻炼大学生实践能力与创新设计能力，从而对大学生综合素质的培养起到积极作用。

The professional competition of geotechnical engineering plays an important role in innovative and practical talents of civil engineering. In this paper, through the competition example, the geotechnical engineering competition for training innovation ability and practice ability of students are detailed described, the geotechnical engineering professional competition is closely with engineering practice. The competition can enhance the basic professional quality and professional skills of college student, it can cultivate the innovation consciousness, the spirit of cooperation, exercise their practice ability and innovation ability of students, it plays a positive role to cultivate the comprehensive quality of college students.

江苏高校品牌建设工程一期项目（PPZY2015B142）；2014年度河海大学水利学科专业国家级实验教学示范中心资助教改立项项目（NO.26）；2015年河海大学创新性教学实验项目（NO.04）；2016年河海大学第一期多样化教学方式改革立项课程（NO.04）