Under the background of emerging engineering construction, new requirements are put forward for traffic engineering specialty. Airport construction project management and construction technology is the core course of traffic engineering specialty. The paper introduces the status and characteristics of the course, analyzes the shortcomings of the course in teaching, and puts forward the student centered learning and the importance of students' innovation ability training under the background of emerging engineering education. And from the aspects of teaching program, teaching content, teaching methods, curriculum assessment methods, curriculum evaluation, teaching materials construction, the teaching reform measures for the airport construction project management and construction technology course are put forward.