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 strategy of emerging engineering and double tops education. As for tunnel engineering, a comprehensive, theoretical, interdisciplinary and practical core curriculum of civil engineering, the traditional teaching concepts, models 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. Good practice indicates that the method could be a beneficial exploration of wisdom teaching reform and can effectively promote both wisdom teaching and learning of tunnel engineering course, making it possible for teaching from single knowledge to multiple wisdom.