In order to reach the aim of cultivating excellent civil engineers, this paper puts forward the teaching method of fault-tolerant, inspiration, mastery for bridge engineering courses, which are the core specialized courses of civil engineering, and the paper includes the following three aspects. Firstly, fault-tolerant of specialized knowledge is achieved by guiding students to find errors in textbooks and specifications. Moreover, in-depth understanding of specialized knowledge is reached through inspiring students to establish organic links of engineering hot issues and specialized knowledge. In addition, complex problems across the courses are designed, which help students to mastery specialized knowledge.