civil engineering. The main body of the course is the law of stress and strain changes when the object is plastically deformed. If you rely solely on textbooks, the course content is complex and the formulas are numerous, which inevitably makes people feel obscure. In view of the significance and problems of the "plastic mechanics" course, this paper carries out the curriculum teaching reform oriented by engineering application-oriented talents in order to stimulate students" interest in learning and combine with the new era and new media platform. Taking the teaching situation of Shanghai University of Technology as an example, the specific reform measures include: (1) Establishing an online classroom through the WeChat public account, increasing the interaction between teachers and students, and optimizing the teaching content in the form of online course production. (2) Adding examples teaching in civil engineering through new media tools based on the combination of theory and practice.(3) Combining the design tools commonly used in the current civil engineering direction with traditional teaching, and presenting them to students through multimedia teaching. (4) Establish a school-enterprise cooperation model, network training for enterprise technicians, and virtual platform simulation training. (5) Requiring graduate students to combine their research directions, reviewing recent literature related to plastic mechanics and make reports, and reporting PPT in class.