Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the state has put forward new requirements for ideological and political education in colleges and universities. Based on the construction requirements of ideological and political education in universities, taking the course of seismic design of building structure in College of Civil Engineering of Tongji University as an example, by analyzing the meaning and target of ideological and political education, combining with the three core ideas of student centering, outcome based education, and continuous quality improvement in engineering education accreditation, moral education elements in civil engineering has been excavated. Based on the characteristics of the course of seismic design of building structure, this paper explores the teaching reformation path. Starting from the three levels of teaching objective, teaching content, teaching form and mechanism, this paper puts forward suggestions for the teaching reformation of curriculum-based ideological and political education:firstly, it should straighten out values from the fundamental level of teaching objective, and make clear who to train, how to train and for whom to train; secondly, ideological and political elements should reflect the specific content of the course and be skillfully integrated into the teaching spontaneously and silently; finally, student-centered teaching forms and mechanisms should be reformed to improve students' self-perceived ideological and political abilities.