China's emerging engineering construction has entered a new stage of comprehensive deepening,and the career of leading the innovation and reform of higher education through exploring and establishing new concepts,new standards,new models and new methods for future-oriented talent cultivation has entered a critical period.However,the connotation and characteristics of emerging engineering graduate students'cultivation are not clear,and there is still a lack of generalizable practice mode,which seriously restricts its demonstration and leading role in the construction of emerging engineering.Taking the practice of cultivating graduate students in the petroleum and natural gas engineering discipline of Southwest Petroleum University as an example,this paper investigates and analyzes the cultivating characteristics of traditional engineering and emerging engineering graduate students,reveals the connotation of"facing the future and adapting to the needs".And the paper constructs the model of"interdisciplinary disciplines and classified cultivating",and puts forward the path of"research-based and multi-dimensional advanced".It provesin practice that this model has good applicability and high promotion value.The study provides a theoretical and practical reference for engineering graduate education.