桥梁工程课程作为一门专业主干必修课，在道路桥梁工程等专业学生能力培养过程中起着十分重要的作用。文章从卓越工程师培养的角度，围绕道路与桥梁工程、桥梁与渡河工程等专业桥梁工程课程案例教学，阐述了对桥梁工程课程案例教学的认识，并对桥梁工程课程教学案例分类与特点进行了探讨，提出了以力学特征角度出发的案例教学设计原则，强调案例教学应注重对案例的分析，将专业素质教育放在突出位置，以培养学生解决专业问题的能力，提高学生工程素养。

Form the point of educating and training outstanding engineers, the case method in the bridge engineering course is examined in the paper for the major of road and bridge engineering as well as bridge and river-crossing engineering.The categories and the features of the engineering cases are discussed and summarized. In order to raise the students ‘ability to solve the professional problem and improve students' engineering quality, the principle following the mechanical features for the case design is presented in the paper, and the plan for the case organization is finally expounded on that the analysis of the case method should be emphasized.