Abstract: The general aim of education reform is to train students with high quality. The important characteristic
of high-quality students is their creative conception and ability. Since mathematics itself is a kind of mode of think-
ing and it expresses the characteristics of thinking of mankind, the authors think that mathematics education plays
an important role in training the creative conception of sutdents. In this paper, the authors discuss the function of
mathematics education for cultivating the creative conception of students of engineering and suggest some ways of
mathematics education reform.

Key words: mathematicseducation, creativeconception, colleges&, universities