Exploration on improving the experimental teaching level of civil engineering specialty course

Experimental teaching is the most direct and effective method to cultivate students' engineering quality. However, there is a big disparity between our current experiment teaching system and our teaching target.According to the experiment teaching practice, the characters of major experiment course are analyzed, such as the comprehensiveness of the knowledge' s structure, the dispersion of the experiment projects and the teaching time,and the particularity of the teaching model and study styles. According to the condition of the major experiment course, some measures such as optimizing the experiment system, reforming experiment teaching methods,reinforcing the laboratory software and hardware building, paying attention to the experiment teachers ' quality cultivation, quantifying the standard of experiment test and opening the experiment resource are brought forward.Thus, exciting students' interest effectively in study the experimental course, developing students' ability to carry out the experiment and lead the students into innovative thinking, and training high quality engineering applied talents for national construction.