Engineering competency is a basic and important quality of being an engineer, but it is one of the weak points in today' s higher engineering education. Taking industrial development needs as the goal of personnel training and focusing on the cultivation of engineering competency, the authors design an integrated practical teaching system, which is based on the requirements for engineering and technical professionals and the characteristics of Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST). The system adopts a “project driven” teaching method and a “swimming poolTM” training mode and establishes a teaching, administration, feedback and evaluation platform consistent with the implementation of this practical teaching mode, so as to ensure the quality of engineering and technical professionals training in an in-depth university-industry collaboration mode.