Abstract: Research-oriented experiments as the new form of experimentteaching, has the difference with the traditional experiment in the teaching design. Based on the dye sensitized solar cell experiment, the design of research-oriented experiment should take the cultivating students’ practical ability, innovation ability, innovative thinking, research ability and scientific research quality as principle, to achieve that, should make the teaching content diversity, students have enough content to choose. It also should be prearranged in the experiment technology to meet the students’ needs. The experiment results should be evaluated to motivate the students.