Abstract: Practical course in college is an important link to cultivate students’ innovative and entrepreneurial practical ability. This paper puts forward the idea of practical curriculum design based on ability cultivation. The idea aims to cultivate innovative talents of engineering technology for the era of rapid change in new technology, new industry and new mode. It adjusts the verifiable design mode to “goal setting, program planning and implementation”. The students’ main position in practice is emphasized,the rules of practical ability training is followed, and students are guided to pay more importance on participation, reflection, implementation and process. At the same time, the latest development and changes of the industry will be reflected in the practical teaching curriculum. For example, new sensor and data processing platform of cloud-human-computerhybrid collaboration are added to ensure that the knowledge and technology acquired by students are in line with the rapidly developing industry level.Photogrammetry practice course is used as an example to test the idea presented in this paper. The practice has proved that the implementation of the curriculum has achieved good results in training students’ ability of comprehensive analysis, design and creative solution to professional problems.

Key words: practice course, ability cultivation orientation, designed experiment, practice course reform, training of professional practice ability