Abstract: Under the background of the large-scale development of engineering education certification in China, in order to improve the teaching effects and accelerate the international certification of engineers, Tongji University has carried out a series of teaching reform practice with soil mechanics as the demonstration course of civil engineering specialty. Firstly, the curriculum objectives are reconstructed according to the graduation requirements and the supporting analysis is carried out. Then the reform measures are implemented from the curriculum goal, namely optimizing the allocation of school hours, constructing the trinity teaching mode of online offline experiment and optimizing the evaluation standard of achievement. Finally, the effects of teaching reform is evaluated by the target achievement degree. In addition, a questionnaire survey is carried out for students’ curriculum satisfaction. The results show that the teaching reform measures of soil mechanics are effective, and the goal attainment as an assessment standard is scientific. Finally,suggestions for continuous improvement measures of soil mechanics teaching are proposed based on curriculum evaluation and questionnaire survey.