Engineering doctoral training aims to cultivate the leading talent with the ability of independent research and development, corresponding engineering field of technological progress and enterprise development, reflecting the need of building an innovative country, and the urgent needs of economic development and scientific and technological progress for high-level engineering and technical personnel. Combined with the engineering training of United States, Britain, Germany, this paper reviewed on the cultivation of engineering doctor in China from admission standards, training objectives, training process and training result, and analyzed the deficiency of current research to explore the training mode for engineering doctoral development.