Abstract: As China's higher education enters a new stage of deepening reform, traditional engineering teaching is also facing new goals and requirements for integrating theory with practice, fundamentals with innovation, and tradition with diversity. Using the teaching of Theoretical Mechanics as an example, this study proposes a student-centered approach to short video creation in basic engineering courses that effectively enhances students' learning efficiency and mastery while significantly promoting their learning ability and innovative thinking. This model offers novel ideas for diversified engineering education and has important implications for optimizing pedagogical reforms in engineering to keep pace with contemporary demands.