Based on the education, engineering and teaching practice, we compared teaching time and contents of foundation engineering course in Chinese and American universities. Moreover, Chinese teaching style and American teaching style were studied and compared generally and the teaching practice adopting American teaching styles with Chinese characteristics in Tianjin Institute of Urban Construction was introduced. We pointed out that American education may be misunderstood by Chinese teachers. We thought that encouraging students to develop their own ideas about content issues and cultivating students with pouring styles was not in conflict. Homework, reference reading, and strict training were very important to cultivate students’ comprehensive quality.