College student structural design competition is most widely participation nationwide civil engineering field, the highest value, in order to enrich students majoring in civil engineering practice teaching content, improve civil engineering students' innovative consciousness, team coordination and engineering practice ability, to the civil engineering professional study in order to promote science teaching methods, detailed discussed in order to promote teaching methods to promote the feasibility and advantage, established a clear framework to promote learning teaching mode, the analysis of the refrigerator for each link, finally, in order to promote teaching methods try to a small range of practice, obtained the very good teaching effect,It reveals the positive effect of the teaching mode of "promoting learning by competition".The research ideas and results will also provide reference for the transformation of the practice teaching mode of similar disciplines.