《Foundation Engineering》is the core course for civil engineering undergraduate students. In the new era, basic engineering has been developed and applied to the fields such as ocean engineering, transportation engineering, energy and environmental protection. The traditional teaching content did not cover the new challenges in these areas. At the same time, students nowadays are proactive and active, and object to the traditional forced-feeding method of teaching. Based on these new challenges mentioned above, combined with the author"s recent teaching practice in Zhejiang University, the paper explored the building of the "Foundation Engineering" curriculum. From the aspects of teaching content, teaching concept, teaching methods and assessment methods of the course, the main innovative measures are: (1) Expanding the teaching content to the "Foundation Engineering" to the ocean, transportation, energy and environmental protection, etc. (2) Introducing the “scenario-stimulated teaching model” to fully mobilize the subjective initiative of students in the new era and improve students" participation in curriculum and engineering practice. The course is designed to cultivate civil engineers with new vision, solid foundation and strong practical ability in the new era of China.