Professional experimental course is the effective path for students to develop comprehensive abilities and innovation ability. Taking the course of mixture design of cement concrete as an example, ideological elements including engineer professional quality, scientific literacy, creative ability and values of honesty, kindness, mutual help and cooperation were explored. Considering the teaching objectives, course content and teaching methods, the ideological elements were designed into teaching process to incorporate with the professional knowledge and skills. The teaching practice showed that students paid more attention and showed more enthusiasm to this course. Meanwhile the degree of participation of students and communication between students were improved, and enhanced the students’ interests to the civil engineering materials and the ability to analyze and solve problems.