There are many shortcomings in the traditional teaching mode of hydraulic engineering drawing, which make it difficult to meet the practical needs of cultivating a large number of hydraulic talents that possess high-level engineering reading and drawing abilities. This paper aims to improve the current curriculum system of hydraulic engineering drawing and propose a new curriculum teaching mode of hydraulic engineering drawing. The proposed teaching mode comprising of reasonable design of curriculum system, deepening understanding with in-class practices, exercising capacities with extracurricular practices, strengthening basic theories with cognition practices and transforming idea in the curriculum examination is presented step by step. A series of implementation measures are also given. It is expected that the proposed teaching mode can effectively enhance the abilities of students in reading and drawing the hydraulic engineering drawings.