The New Era national strategies, the Emerging Engineering Education reform of China’s higher education, and the international certification of engineering education raise new requirements for postgraduate cultivation in traditional engineering. The conflict between expansion of graduate recruitments and promotion of engineering training objective becomes the current main contradiction in postgraduate education. It becomes urgent to consider how to cultivate qualified future engineers. The paper analyzes the critical problems in postgraduate education of civil engineering. The approaches to emerging engineering education are also discussed in terms of training concept, teaching method, mentoring mode, and seminar organization pattern.