With the present situation in current engineering construction such as impetuous and confused ideas, less innovation consciousness and safe responsibility consciousness, engineering ethics missing, short-sighted highlight, from the consciousness and the spirit of the relationship and distinction, the paper analyzes the connotation of engineering awareness and spirit, explores the source of ideas, puts forward the concept of the engineering consciousness cultivating and engineering spirit construction for innovation engineering talent in the application-oriented undergraduate college education, and the measures to train the students’ engineering awareness and spirit from the knowledge structure, practice ability , education innovation and other aspects .