As an important professional basic course for engineering majors in colleges, material mechanics is the link between basic theory courses and corresponding professional courses and plays a key role in the knowledge system of engineering majors. Based on the material mechanics course of Hebei University of Engineering, combined with the teaching reform of material mechanics courses at home and abroad and years of teaching experience of material mechanics courses, the research and practice of teaching content, teaching methods and assessment methods have been carried out, and a certain stage has been achieved. It provides a certain curriculum reform for the developing compound application talents that meet the requirements of the new era.