Engineering management talent needs to have strong practice ability and innovation ability, engineering economic innovation ability is one of an important component. According to the social demand for engineering management talent，we explored effective training models of innovation ability. This paper analyzed the position of engineering economics under talent training objectives, the choosing of teaching contents of engineering economics, and proposed the training measures of engineering economics innovation ability by teaching methods reform and teaching practice. The practice result showed that the students’ engineering economic innovative ability was substantially improved.