The National Structure Design Competition for College Students,held up one time a year,is one of the most influential competitions among college students.It has great impacts on the formation of students' innovation awareness,practical capacity,and flexibility on linking cross-discipline.We elaborated on the weakness and several limits of the structure design competition by analyzing the subject and requirement of all the past contests.Additionally,suggestions were presented for future competitions.

The undergraduate structural design competition has great significance to cultivate innovation talents of civil engineering.The paper elaborates on the requirement to students＇ abilities based on the structural design competition.It summarizes basic principles and methods in the competition and gives a multitude of illustrations to show how the innovative spirit and practical abilities play important roles in the competition.Additionally,several suggestions are proposed to cultivate students＇ innovation and practice abilities in an aspect of the competition reality.