Aiming at the problem that engineering teachers in universities attach importance to professional training, emphasize the acquirement of knowledge and skills, while neglect the educational work, the course basic theory of reinforced concrete structure in civil engineering is taken as an example to conduct analysis. On the basis of analysis for the content and characteristics of this course, the principles and methods for ideological and political education are proposed. The construction of ideological and political education resources is introduced. The purposes and implementation program of curriculum-based ideological and political education are summarized.