The course design and graduation design are very important practice teaching link in the course of civil engineering specialty. In order to improve practice teaching quality of civil engineering specialty, according to teaching resource and the characteristic of talents training goal, a series of reform measures such as selecting design title and teacher scenically, optimizing design content, improving the methods of guidance and questionanswering are utilized to foster students’ abilities of analyzing and solving problems as well as the ability of civil engineering design. The reform of testing method and ensuring quality measures are also adopted. Results indicate that these measures have proved to be effective in enhancing students’ engineering practice abilities, creativity and overall quality.