Referred to the characteristics of professional education at the University of Washington in USA, we explored how to improve traffic engineering majors’ participation and enthusiasm in professional curriculum learning. The ways included four aspects of carrying out a questionnaire survey to understand students’ demands, introducing new research achievements, encouraging PPT presentation, holding group discussion and classic reading. Then we summarized experience from aspects of evaluation way, ability training, as well as learning and teaching, and discussed the exploration direction and goals for the future to improve undergraduates’ learning participation and initiative.