Engineering characteristic guided courses reflect the training objectives of applied talents and the core competitiveness of students in related majors. As one of the representative courses, the course of introduction to architectural engineering has been opened in several majors such as housing management and public management. It can provide non-engineering students with the necessary basic engineering theory, but there are also many contradictions that need to be resolved in experimental teaching. On the basis of defining the orientation and characteristics of the course, the contradictions that need to be resolved in the experimental teaching of the course of introduction to construction engineering and the necessity of carrying out the virtual simulation experiment teaching were systematically analyzed. Based on the requirements of engineering management professional practice ability outline, the construction concept and scheme of virtual simulation experiment teaching mode were put forward. The questionnaire survey and quantitative analysis were conducted to evaluate the implementation effect. The teaching mode of virtual simulation experiment well meets the requirements of the professional ability outline of engineering management, which can provide reference for the teaching of engineering characteristic guidance courses in relevant colleges and universities.