The feasibility of combining industrial design undergraduate teaching with CDIO education model is analyzed. A new education model “HARP (Humanism, Art, Responsibility, Professionalism) -CDIO” for industrial design specialty is discussed. HARP-CDIO is not only the development on the training factors of CDIO but also an education reform of industrial higher education system for societal demands for professional designers in the background of national industry upgrading.