For most engineering majors, it is an urgent problem to be solved to cultivate the application-oriented talents needed by the society during the undergraduate level in higher engineering education. There are many problems in the current cultivation mode, such as focus on theory but ignore practice, focus on principle but ignore design, focus on civil engineering but ignore related and adjacent majors, focus on rational culture but ignore humanities education. In order to solve these problems, comparing and analyzing the differences of training mode between application-oriented talents and research talents and managerial talents, constructing the cultivation mode of civil engineering application-oriented talents based on P-KTS-D model from the perspective of the professional ability of engineers and technicians. In this way, it is possible to cultivate application-oriented talents who are both good at adapting to the industrial environment and specialized in professional ability.