Civil engineering is a traditional technology, which requests high engineering quality and practical ability for students. There are a number of problems on the innovation ability training in universities. Combined with the actual work about innovation ability training of civil engineering majors in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, we discussed the following three aspects, which were strengthening course construction to inspire students’ creative thinking, strengthening practice links to make them master basic skills, and providing them an stage to achieve innovation through various activities. The methods achieved good results.