According to the strong theoretical and practical features of detecting and strengthening engineering structures course, and the current situation and problems of teaching—much teaching content but few teaching hours, students' low enthusiasm, poor teaching efficiency and so on, combined with the authors' many years of teaching experience, this paper analyzed the direction of the course teaching reform, putting emphasis on students' comprehensive ability training. Suggestions on teaching reform were giving around teaching content and teaching methods to improve teaching quality and effectiveness, including the importance of the choice of teaching materials, practical teaching methods and double-quality teaching team building.