In order to meet the demand of civil engineering talents in society and businesses, training applied talents of vocational ability, this article taking the inspection evaluation training as an example explores the training method of the application of senior engineering and technical personnel. On the basis of investigation and analysis, the correspondence between "post ability demand - ability module - knowledge (skills) unit-curriculum" is analyzed to construct the theory and practice curriculum system for the training of detection and evaluation ability. Teaching reform refers to the theory and practice of teaching, teaching school-enterprise cooperation, engineering experiment content, rich sound curriculum resources to promote the realization of ability. Guidance project explores the new talent training mode leading with the "capacity" trainingas.