土木工程专业是一个传统的技术行业，对学生工程素质和实践能力的要求很高。针对目前高校在开展创新能力培养方面存在的一些问题，结合华中科技大学土木工程专业学生创新能力培养的工作实际，分别就如何加强课程建设启迪学生的创新思维、加强实践环节掌握创新的基本技能以及通过各类活动给学生提供一个实现创新的平台三个方面展开论述，取得了较好的效果。

Civil engineering is a traditional technology, which requests high engineering quality and practical ability for students. There are a number of problems on the innovation ability training in universities. Combined with the actual work about innovation ability training of civil engineering majors in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, we discussed the following three aspects, which were strengthening course construction to inspire students’ creative thinking, strengthening practice links to make them master basic skills, and providing them an stage to achieve innovation through various activities. The methods achieved good results.