The new situation of national strategies in new era, Emerging Engineering Education reform of China’s higher education and international certification of engineering education raise new requirements for postgraduate cultivation in traditional engineering. It becomes urgent to consider how to cultivate qualified future engineers with high moral standards. The current main contradiction in postgraduate education becomes to the conflict between expansion of graduate recruitments and promotion of engineering training objective. The present paper analyze the critical problems in postgraduate education of civil engineering. The approaches to emerging engineering education are also been discussed in terms of teaching method, mentoring mode, and seminar organization pattern.