In order to improve the undergraduates’ training quality，the role in the competition of talent cultivation in colleges and universities was explored，the proposition and organizational level of civil engineering structure design competition were improve，and a fair competition environment in civil engineering disciplines was build. Combined with the proposition design and game practice hosted the second session of the university student structural design competition in hunan province，the competition rules and the problem characteristics and the innovation points of contest problems design were analysis，to discuss the measures to promote fair competition and the lack of competition rules. The practice shows that it is a challenge to take part in the course contests of structural design for both guide teacher and students, which needs the theory and practice of engineering be combined, criteria and weight of scoring be discussed.