Abstract: WebQuest is an investigative teaching method which is based on informa tion resource on the Internet. In order to eliminate the shortages of using the traditional literature retrieval course as engineering masters- information lite racy education course, the information literacy education research group in whic h the author works redesigned the teaching pattern to apply the WebQuest teachin g method into information literacy education of the engineering master. During t he practice, we divided the information literacy education into six steps, desig nation of the learning task, construction of the web-based teaching environment , organization of the information resources, implementation of the teaching proc ess, evaluation of the learning effect and summarization of the learning conclus ion. This article also summarizes some key factors which affect the teaching res ult, and obtained a good result.