Sufficient performance of technical and engineering education represents today's topic. The world is looking for ways to solve the problem of insufficient acquisition of technical competencies as well as the lack of experiential knowledge of students. The choice of modern teaching strategies and methods is most important. Unlike, those traditional methods, where the role of the teacher is exclusively teaching - the transmitter of knowledge, and students are passive recipients of information, modern teaching allows active involvement in the teaching process. Project teaching and learning is a comprehensive approach to learning where students are engaged in collaborative active work researching authentic problems in everyday life. The essence of project learning is in the process as a path to cognition, where project teaching expresses creativity, creative thinking, solving real problems, which is actually the goal of modern teaching. This final work presents project teaching as a basis for acquiring engineering competencies. Through examples of good practice - projects and numerous initiatives of successful engineering education in STEM areas are briefly described. The education of polytechnic engineers was analyzed with supported examples and employment opportunities in the labor market. Finally, an example of a functional use object "Smart Watch" is given as an indicator of project teaching at the Polytechnic study, together with all project documentation. Project - based learning integrates knowledge from different fields that are necessary for the development of a young engineer in the labor market.