Civil engineering, as a typical traditional engineering specialty, faces numerous problems under the background of emerging engineering education. These problems include backward education and teaching concepts, low classroom teaching effect, single innovative training methods, and unsound collaborative education mechanism of "curriculum ideological and political education". The civil engineering specialty in Jilin university systematically designs a new five-in-one talent training mode integrating ideological and political theory, courses, practices, competition, and scientific research under the guidance of triune education philosophy covering value shaping, ability training, and knowledge teaching, with the goal of cultivating creative talents in civil engineering meeting the demand for current and future technological development and industrial revolution. A new curriculum system is built based on the principles of laying a solid foundation, strengthening practices, and encouraging innovation and the content of the new curriculum is set under the guidance of highlighting foundation, integrating with frontier fields, and focusing on engineering. Moreover, the specialty explores new teaching and learning methods in a student-oriented way and promotes the cultivation of creative talents with both political integrity and professional competence through class teaching reform in multiple factors, innovative training via multi-mode collaboration, and multi-course education.