Empowerment teaching means a variety of teaching methods are used to empower students with new abilities actively and continuously in the course learning process to meet the changing demands of the industry and career requirements. The paper was an attempt and practice to implement the teaching of hydraulics according to the characteristics and teaching status quo of hydraulics course. It puts years of teaching practice in the context of new engineering. The methods of empowering teaching attempt and practice through enriching teaching methods, optimizing experimental and practical teaching, exploring ideological and political elements, encouraging students to participate in discipline competitions and other aspects were used to implement empowerment teaching and explore a new teaching mode for hydraulic course.