Innovation is the national endowment of the Chinese nation, cultivating the college students' innovative ability is a need for improving college students' competitiveness, building an innovative country and enhancing our nation' comprehensive strength. This paper takes the Engineering College of Yanbian University as an example. Starting from the aspects of setting up innovative education concept, building innovative education system, building innovative practice platform and innovating the student management and so on，this paper explores new ways of cultivating college students' innovative ability.