Abstract: Considering the characteristics of building materials course, such as many knowledge points, complex subject content, few class hours and strong practicality, this paper proposes a project-driven curriculum modular teaching reform idea to cultivate outstanding innovative talents under the background of new engineering subjects. The current teaching situation and existing problems of building materials course for water conservancy specialty was analyzed firstly, and then the teaching reform scheme of building materials course was carried out from five aspects of curriculum mode, teaching system, practice orientation, evaluation goal and continuous improvement. The practice shows that this model could effectively improve students' learning enthusiasm and comprehensive professional ability, meeting the needs of talent training and teaching reform under the new engineering background.

Key words: Building material, Teaching reform, Modular teaching, New engineering, Project-driven, Water conservancy specialty