Abstract: In order to cultivate students’ ability to use image processing technology to solve the problems in engineering application, and to train application talents of ceramic industry, a digital image processing characteristic experiment project, defect inspection for ceramics, is designed in this paper. The project consists of three parts, including confirmatory experiment, comprehensive experiment and innovative experiment. On the one hand, the contents of the project involve the classical theory of digital image processing, so that students can fully understand the image processing technology in practice. On the other hand, the algorithm design idea oriented to industry characteristics is given in this paper, which provides a new idea for students to solve the engineering problem by using algorithms. The development of the project takes the feature orientation of local university into account, and gives a new idea of characteristic case design. The proposed project enhances the students’ enthusiasm in experiment and cultivates students’ ability to solve complex engineering problems.