In order to actively meet the demands of diversified development of the engineering industry, and to cater to the national “Made in China 2025”, “Industry 4.0” and other strategic plans, this paper deeply explores the civil engineering “intelligent structures” mini-curriculum training modes and explains the urgency and necessity of the implementation of such courses. The mini-curriculum is developed based on the “common basis and personality training” framework proposed by Tongji University. The teaching reform should be carried out with the objectives of internationalization and diversification, and to build the multi-disciplinary cross-training curriculum system, teaching methods and curriculum assessment system. This study forms the basis of the new model and new method for the establishment of the knowledge system for the intelligent structure mini-curriculum.