Abstract: Engineering knowledge is an important learning content for students majoring in design, with strong logic and theory. Industrial design majors who need constant innovation tend to be confronted with difficulties in study if they are taught according to the original engineering thinking. On the basis of considering the thinking characteristics of design majors and the method of realizing their design, a kind of teaching thinking and teaching method of engineering courses of industrial design majors is presented in this paper which takes engineering course contents in the teaching of industrial design majors as an example, and a basic method and an realization approach to integrate the creative design of product mechanism and structure are established exploratively. This is to enable students to form a smooth connection between the design innovation and design realization through studying the engineering knowledge.

Key words: Creative thinking, Realization method, Teaching application