As for the status quo of the higher engineering education in our country, this paper analyzes the mode of CDIO engineering education, the characteristics of software engineering professional education and the problems on software engineering personnel training at present, and exploits the integration of CDIO educational philosophy and training program of excellence engineer for software engineering discipline. Through combining the process of personnel training with engineering projects or software product cycle, the discipline training program is designed and the curricular system of theory and practice teaching is constructed. By integrating internal and external faculty, on terms of knowledge, ability and quality, the quality standards of talent training are set up to support the education and training program of excellence engineer in current education reform.