Abstract: Subject competitions play a positive role in guiding college students to improve their innovation and practical abilities. Industrial engineering students participating in subject competitions face problems such as low participation enthusiasm and insufficient innovation in their entries. By optimizing the training program for industrial engineering majors, establishing a subject competition oriented curriculum coaching system and guidance team, strengthening practical teaching, establishing a subject competition driven second classroom, implementing subject competition driven industrial engineering teaching reform, and enhancing students’ comprehensive quality and innovation ability.