Abstract: The new engineering education clearly points out that it is necessary to focus on the cultivation of engineering science and technology innovation and industrial innovation talents. In this context, taking the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Lingnan Normal University as an example, the analysis found that there are some problems in the teaching of "creo course", such as single structure of teaching content, poor application ability of students and so on. Therefore, this paper proposes to take the training of engineering innovation ability as the goal, take product innovation design, scientific evaluation system of product performance and patent application as the means, and the teaching reform plan for the optimization of mechanical product design is carried out through the project. This reform can give full play to the students' professional foundation and creative ability, that is, to be familiar with the software and comprehensively apply the knowledge learned before, also can strive for scientific research achievements through their own efforts.

Key words: New engineering, Engineering innovation ability, Creo course, Teaching reform