The traditional internet of things (IoT) engineering major has some problems in the personnel training mode, such as unreasonable curriculum, weak practical teaching and insufficient cooperation between schools and enterprises. Under the background of new engineering construction, colleges should carry out comprehensive reform and innovation on personnel training mode according to their own reality and closely follow the national major strategic policy. Through the organic integration of measures such as optimizing the curriculum, strengthening practical teaching, improving the level of teachers, deepening school-enterprise cooperation, and building an innovation and entrepreneurship education system. The practical ability, innovation ability and international competitiveness of students are comprehensively improved, and high-quality applied talents of IOT engineering are cultivated to meet the needs of a new generation of information technology and industrial changes.