Application of Research Study in the Teaching of Civil Engineering

After the analysis of the characteristics of civil engineering and insufficiencies of traditional teaching method, by combining with the previous results of teaching reform, this paper takes the study of structural courses as an example to make careful design of the learning mode application in civil engineering specialty teaching, and focused on the introduction of teaching ideas, instructional design, teaching points and other teaching contents. Currently, from the narrow definition, civil engineering includes architectural engineering (or structural engineering), bridge and tunnel engineering, geotechnical engineering, highway and urban roads, railway engineering, etc [1]. As the civil engineering involves a wide range of knowledge, many contents and great difficulty, especially the professional courses, the poor systematic feature, diverse structural forms, a lot of test summaries and conclusions, coupled with insufficient foundation of mathematics and mechanics of some students, the specialty impressed student with difficult mastery in the professional courses learning, thus resulting in poor study effect. To solve this problem, the author of this paper reformed the teaching methods of civil engineering course on the basis of years' teaching practice by careful thought. In the teaching of professional courses, research study approach was used to mobilize the initiative of students, cultivate their ability of independent analysis and problem-solving skills to achieve better teaching results.