Applied talent training affects China’s high-quality economic growth and manufacturing development. From the perspective of industry education integration and based on the reality of resident engineers, this paper constructs an analysis framework combining resident engineers, industry-education integration, and the training of talents with craftsmanship, it explores the realization mechanism of applied talent training through the typical case of College A. It is found that on-campus resident engineers, as a new form of integration of industry and education, have improved the integration level. They promote the integration with different priorities in different stages, namely, the forward-looking guidance in the stage of formulating training plan, the competitiveness in the teaching stage, and the employment in the internship stage. In this sense, the integration of industry and education in the form of on-campus resident engineers plays a positive role in improving students’ ability, quality and competitiveness, which is of great benefit to improve students’ employment quality. Therefore, the innovation of this paper is that it puts forward a new training model of talents with craftsmanship via the integration of industry and education, and enriches the theory of social capital.