Higher engineering education should aim at training practical and innovative talents to meet community, but the current university teaching model is difficult to meet it. A new teaching mode is imminent which make fully advantages of Internet, stimulate students' learning enthusiasm and cultivate students' innovation ability. This paper deals with the successful application of flipping classroom in construction regulations course of civil engineering, focuses on the operating model of the flipped classroom in construction regulations course, and provides an example of teaching method in engineering education.