The purpose of this paper is to explore the private university engineering master's service state special needs talent training project, how to improve the practical ability of engineering master to solve the practical problems of enterprises is a practical problem faced by the pilot colleges and universities. This paper discusses the application of the school practice base in the field of control engineering of Xijing University, the school enterprise joint training base, relying on scientific research cooperation platform and so on; it is feasible to take the practice ability as the core of Engineering Master's training mode in the field of control engineering of Xijing University. The innovation of this paper is to discuss how to improve the practice ability of the students in private colleges and universities from the private colleges and universities.