As an important part of teaching evaluation system in China, engineering education accreditation is of great practical significance and profound historical significance in guaranteeing the quality of engineering education cultivation and accelerating the connection with international engineering education. Based on the requirements of engineering education accreditation after China's accession to the Washington Accord, this paper discusses and practices the cultivation mode of civil engineering in application-oriented university. The "1132" training mode, which is relied on industry and enterprises, focused on ability cultivation, takes achievement of cultivation goals, graduation requirements and course objectives as main line, and takes engineering culture education and innovation and entrepreneurship education as its two wings. This realizes the innovation and development of talent cultivation under the background of engineering education accreditation, and is of great significance for training engineering application-oriented talents that meet the requirements for international engineering education accreditation.