Abstract:According to the local industrial demands and the standards of national engineering education professional certification, our team implemented a project-oriented teaching reform of the course Environmental Microbiology and constructed an innovative teaching model that integrated teaching, learning, education, and application. We designed 3 teaching projects, 17 learning tasks, and 4 course objectives, improved the evaluation methods for achievements, and established a diversified assessment system. The reform was characterized by diverse teaching methods and forms and emphasized the unique teaching and ideological and political education. After theteaching reform, thestudents demonstrated improved initiative and enthusiasm in learning and achieved thegoals beyond expectation. The final student pass rate, comprehensive scores, supervision evaluation, peer evaluation, and student evaluation were all obvious improved. The project-oriented teaching reform of Environmental Microbiology achieved valuable results.