Wisdom teaching reform led by the appropriate application of teaching wisdom, has gradually become a key measure to realize and deepen the reform of higher engineering education under the background of emerging engineering education and Double First-Class. The tunnel engineering as a theoretical, comprehensive, practical and interdisciplinary core curriculum of civil engineering specialty, the traditional teaching concepts, mode and curriculum content can no longer meet the demand for high-level innovative engineering talents in urban rail transit, resource development engineering and the "Belt and Road" construction. The current teaching status and the existing problems of tunnel engineering course are systemically elaborated first, and then a creative wisdom teaching reform method is proposed. The student-oriented method fully integrates teaching ability intelligent upgrading, teaching content intelligent updating, multidimensional teaching mode and learning-oriented intelligent autonomy, taking discipline education as the criterion. The practice indicates that the method is a beneficial exploration of wisdom teaching reform and can effectively promote both teaching and learning of tunnel engineering course, making it possible for teaching from single knowledge to multiple wisdom.