The program of educating and training outstanding engineers is a major teaching reform project of higher engineering education in China. Environmental engineering major in our institute, as a pilot major, involves itself into educating and training outstanding engineers by introducing a new talent training mode, optimizing the teaching content, transforming education concept and formulate the standards of cultivating personnel. In the process of practice, the attempts in the promotion of school-enterprise cooperation, the combination of work and study, curriculum system reform in higher engineering education are proved to be beneficial.