In order to carry out competency-oriented teaching in the experimental courses at the foundational teaching stage, and strengthen engineering awareness and practical ability cultivation, the French Ministry of Education has proposed six competency indicators for the physics and chemistry courses of engineering preparatory courses. This paper takes the “Physics Experiment (Optics)” course for engineers majors as an example to introduce a teaching design oriented towards six competency indicators, including the reconstruction of course content, implementation plans and evaluation results of process-oriented assessment and terminal assessment. The experience gained can provide reference and inspiration for the teaching reform of similar courses.

Basic experimental courses play an important role in training students' practical ability, systematic thinking and engineering consciousness in the process of training engineers. Taking physics experiment (optics) course as an example, the present paper introduces the exploration and practice of course construction from aspects of course objectives, content design, teaching mode and evaluation method. The reform and innovation of the curriculum not only makes the basic experiment course provide effective support for the study of engineering courses, and also provides a strong guarantee for the cultivation of engineers' innovation ability.

Fundamental physics experiment course is the beginning for undergraduates to receive systematic experimental methods and experimental skills training. It plays a very important role in cultivating students' basic scientific experimental skills and improving scientific literacy. However, in recent years, the class hours of physics experiment course were reduced, while the complaints and negative evaluation to the course from students is becoming more and more popular in many universities, which is very unfavorable to the construction and development of physics experiment course. In this paper, the reasons for the above phenomena are analyzed. Taking the curriculum cognition and learning method guidance as the core, and taking the learning outcomes of the curriculum as the guidance, we optimize the teaching contents and teaching methods of the introduction lecture, effectively improve the learning results of the physics experiment course, and achieve satisfactory results.