After more than 10 years development,the structural design competition increasingly tends to stimulate the major engineering problems today,which highlights the outstanding advantages of the competition in training engineering consciousness for civil engineering students. According to the connotation of engineering consciousness and the features of the competitions, the inspection index system how to train the comprehensive engineering consciousness for students is set up. This system contains the practical application ability,the structural innovation idea,the teamwork spirit, the work confidence and their subprojects. Relying on the data of two school competitions, the statistics are analyzed by comparing the data before and after the competition. The reform ways are put forward based on the experience of organizing and participating in the competitions.