Abstract: The Ministry of Education has proposed that one of the purposes of emerging engineering education in colleges and universities is to cultivate innovative talents with engineering practice ability.The development trend of surveying and mapping science and technology has gradually changed from analog surveying, digital surveying and information surveying to intelligent surveying. The development of surveying and mapping instruments and methods has presented new challenges to surveying and mapping majors and has higher requirements for the comprehensive ability required by talent cultivation.Taking the transformation and upgrading of the mine surveying major of China University of Mining and Technology as an example, the project team has deeply discussed the reform ideas of the development of surveying and mapping engineering major with industrial characteristics and the cultivation of innovative talents under emerging engineering education situation, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of the surveying and mapping from the traditional major to the emerging engineering education major of combining "space-sky-earth-mine".

Key words: emerging engineering education, industry characteristics, surveying and mapping, specialty construction, transformation and upgrading