Abstract: The quality of teaching directly affects the quality of personnel training in universities. The social ability demand of application-oriented undergraduates was expounded. The problems existing in the teaching process of the professional curriculum of civil engineering in application-oriented universities was also analyzed. Taking the course of steel structure design for architecture as an example, the teaching reform of this kind of courses was explored. A variety of teaching reform measures were put forward, such as building diversified curriculum resources, selecting mixed teaching mode, implementing multi-angle practice links, so as to effectively improve the teaching effect and personnel training quality. At the same time, it can also provide reference for the teaching reform of similar courses of other relevant specialties.

Key words: Application-oriented undergraduate, Civil engineering, Professional curriculum, Teaching reform