Abstract: Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, an application-oriented undergraduate university, started the professional certification of environmental engineering in 2020. The teacher team of Principles of Environmental Engineering course studied and analyzed the characteristics and basis of the course earnestly, and actively carried out reform exploration and practice in view of the problems existing in the current course teaching process and in combination with the actual situation of the school and professional talent training program. The curriculum system is optimized by refining teaching content, enriching teaching resources and strengthening experimental practice. The teaching mode is reformed through the construction of online teaching management platform, the implementation of online and offline hybrid teaching, the introduction of virtual simulation experiment platform, and the refinement of comprehensive evaluation of assessment items. Through the optimization of curriculum system and the reform of teaching mode, we will make contributions to improving the quality of curriculum teaching, reaching the engineering certification standard and improving the quality of talent training.

Key words: Engineering education professional certification, Principles of environmental engineering, Teaching reform