The practical teaching is an important teaching link for engineering majors in universities and colleges. We analyzed the mode, teaching effect and existing problems of several practical teaching links including in class experiments, the professional practice, the productive practice, the graduation field work, and the graduation design. The results show that the place out of school for the professional practice can not meet the requirements, the graduation field work is formalistic, there are some conflicts between graduation project and getting a job for students, and the innovative experiment is lacking. The results lay the foundation for an alternative program to the practical teaching of engineering majors in universities and colleges.