Abstract: As the important carrier of spatial imagination and creative thinking training,
configuration design plays key roles in training students’ creative thinking abilities. Based on the
research situation of engineering graphics education, a new curriculum system of engineering
graphics based on creative configuration design is presented, which focuses on the configuration
design and stands out the training of students’ creative thinking ability. Then, the new curriculum
system is deeply explained from three aspects: the educational reform target, the educational
reform content and the teaching practice. The teaching practices indicate that the curriculum
system can train student's creative thinking ability in configuration design very well.

Key words: engineering graphics, teaching reform, configuration design, creative thinking