Operational research is an important basic course for postgraduates majored in engineering management. This course focuses on cultivating students’ ability of managing organizational systems and shows a rapid development in higher education. Several drawbacks exist in current operational research education practice, including ambiguous teaching objectives, unreasonable teaching arrangements, unreasonable teaching methods, insufficient practice sessions, and unscientific performance evaluation. Based on years of teaching and research practice and experience, corresponding solutions are presented in the paper. To be specific, the teaching objectives should be clear and definite, the teaching content should be identified and updated in a reasonable manner, the case-based teaching method should be enriched, the teaching of software regarding operations research’s application should be enhanced, and the traditional performance evaluation way should be improved. These methods can promote the reform of the operational research education in engineering management and other fields and provide a valuable reference for training excellent managers and skilled workers.