The civil engineering specialty is a typical example of conventional engineering specialty. Under the emerging engineering construction background, there are many problems in the specialty construction, such as no established talent cultivation mode, no op-locked improved mechanism, unprogressive education idea and scattered reform measures. The civil engineering specialty of Central South University of Forestry and Technology (CSUFT) formed a new model of talent cultivation and achieved remarkable effects through the professional accreditation idea’s guide, optimization the system of content and teaching platform and creation of the circulatory improved mechanism (Plan-Do-Check-Act). CSUFT provided some insights for innovative development of conventional emerging engineering education. These insights include: the major goes ahead of the disciplinary and then develop parallelly. The top-level design of educational reform goes ahead of the action. All teachers and students should deeply participate in the overall reform process and the college autonomy should be guaranteed.