As a professional basic course of traffic engineering major in Civil Aviation University of China, soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering includes soil mechanics features and foundation design, which lays a foundation to the study of follow-up professional courses of airport engineering specialty. Based on the teaching experience, the knowledge of civil aviation airport engineering was integrated into the teaching content. The civil aviation teaching mode of this course based on airport industry was discussed. The positive influence of the professional extension of teaching content, interactive teaching methods and ganged assessment mechanism of course to the teaching effect was studied. Then, optimization suggestions of civil aviation teaching methods were proposed.