With rapid development of engineering survey technology and increasing challenges in job market,demands for college graduates with solid theoretical knowledge and good practical skills necessitates the teaching reform for engineering survey course in application-oriented colleges. Based on platforms of on-campus practical course teaching and training projects, college students' innovation and entrepreneur projects, and provincial academic competition projects, we develop a practical education mode with tutor corps and engineering survey's open experiment and training sources as carriers. Students' professional skills and overall competence are promoted through progressive training, through improved and innovative skill assessment and mental development mechanism, and through whole-course training and phased implementation programs.