Key competences in vocational competence has got more and more attention. The responsibility to promote the key competences should been undertaken by laborer, enterprise or industry, vocational training institutions, schools, the society. It is also an important responsibility to education of regular higher schools undergraduate to train students’ vocational key competences. This paper analyzes the existing problems about cultivating the key ability of engineering applied talents，and points out that there is more uncertainty in post demand, insufficient understanding of the school education and mismatching with industrial development needs.