Fundamentals of Industrial Systems is positioned as the core cultural quality course of Tsinghua University, and also belongs to the “science and engineering certification” course for students of liberal arts departments such as humanities and social sciences. Combined with the basic course of industrial system, how to make non-engineering students understand the long history of casting and experience different casting methods from the aspects of course positioning, course development and course implementation were introduced. The development trend of foundry industry was also discussed, so that students can experience the connotation of foundry industry system.