As an important form of university-enterprise cooperative cultivation and an important platform of Industry-Academy-Research Cooperation for postgraduates in China, graduate workstations are the best way to cultivate innovative and compound talents. At present, graduate workstations encounter many problems during their operation. Taking the highway intelligent maintenance innovation technology graduate workstation as the target analysis, the paper analyzes problems such as the separation of scientific research project from training plans, low motivation of cooperative cultivation and imperfect evaluation?mechanism, it also puts forward a series solutions pertinently from three aspects: joint formulation of menu-style projects through enterprise and universities; integrative construction of graduate workstation inside and outside campus; perfecting the evaluation mechanism. These solutions provide a guarantee for the long-term operation and the talent cultivation model of the graduate workstations, and make great significance to the improvement of postgraduate education quality,, the disciplines construction of universities and the innovative development of enterprises.