Abstract: Bridge Engineering is a core course for applied colleges and universities in civil engineering, which plays an important role in bridge structures analyzing, designing and enlightening the values. Starting from the needs of serving local development for local colleges , facing the social demand for infrastructure construction, the course team, with the new engineering construction as the standard, closely follows the educational goal of“teaching the principles of structure, conveying the principles of design, and cultivating civil engineering talents”, conducts teaching design from the four dimensions of teaching content, teaching resources, teaching platforms, and teaching evaluation. By relying on information technology such as virtual animation of bridge structures, videos and pictures, and design software, a“Integration of knowledge and action, four-step linkage”information-based teaching system for bridge engineering is established to cultivate high-quality applied talents in civil engineering.

Key words: Applied colleges, Curriculum reform, Teaching design, Integration of knowledge and action, Four-step linkage, Bridge engineering