At present, in the field of higher education, enhancing college students' creative thinking ability has become an important link for universities to cultivate high-quality innovative and entrepreneurial talents. Problems in the construction of the creative thinking cultivation system, reflection and summary, optimization and upgrading, etc. need to be urgently addressed. From the perspective of the cultivation of undergraduates for engineering majors in Jiangsu University, aiming at the problems in the cultivation of creative thinking in the field of higher education, this study adopts the method of combining questionnaire and face-to-face interview to carry out the latest system summary and put forward optimization suggestions. The results show that the creative thinking training measures implemented by Jiangsu University are effective, and a creative thinking training system of research-oriented university with engineering characteristics has been built. This study provides a new idea and direction for the subsequent related research, and has a certain methodological introduction to the higher education of engineering.