“Reinforced concrete structural design” is a basic course of the port & channel engineering，which is closely connected with engineering practice and plays an important role for the students in mastering the basic theories,professional skills and the ability to solve practical engineering problems.The teacher not only teaches the basic principles of the concrete structure and,more importantly,through the teaching of this course trains students’ engineering capabilities,including research ability,practical ability,writing skills and so on.Then the above issues have been investigated on these aspects: the teaching design,reform of teaching and assessment methods,management of the practice and experimental teaching process,and the application of criterion.At last,this paper puts forward some reasonable suggustions.