For a long time, colleges and universities generally carry out students’ discipline competition activities, and college students’ competition has become one of the important learning and display platforms that students admire and schools attach importance to. This paper points out the reasons that restrict the healthy development of discipline competition from the aspects of the relationship between curriculum teaching system and discipline competition, discipline competition organization and incubation mechanism. By introducing, digesting and absorbing the ideas of design thinking, based on the exploration of the School of Civil Engineering in Southwest Jiaotong University in recent years, this paper introduces the 1.0 version of the organization and management method of civil engineering discipline competition, which is based on ethics, student-centered, ability-oriented, and mutual promotion of competition and teaching, and its achievements, and points out the problems found in the implementation process. Based on the background of double first-class and emerging engineering construction, the 2.0 version of discipline competition guidance is proposed. The experience and outline can be used as reference for civil engineering colleges and comprehensive engineering colleges.