The aim of the study is to analyse the emerging trends on engineering education in recent years by taking systematic review of literatures. By using the visualization tool named CiteSpace, we analyzed 657 articles on engineering education from the Web of Science database. In this study, the emerging trends such as STEM education, system planning, online teaching can be found by keywords clustering and evolution. Besides, authors map is given to find the relationship among them. The findings of the current study indicate that engineering education is developing and have numerous fields to carry on researches. The research trends and hotspots in the field of engineering education found in this study may be helpful to understand the overall development and future research directions.