Surveying engineering is one of the professional basic courses for civil engineering specialty, including classroom teaching and experiment or practice. With the rapid developments of surveying and mapping science and technology, the applications of modern surveying and mapping technology, such as UAV photogrammetric, 3D laser scanning and GNSS technology, grow fast in civil engineering. At the same time, it is also a basic requirement to integrate ideological and political elements into course teaching and practice. In view of the training objectives of civil engineering students in “double first-class” universities, combined with the development trend of surveying and mapping science and technology and its status in civil engineering, and taking a new round of training plan and curriculum reform as an opportunity, the ideological and political elements in the course of engineering surveying are excavated from multiple dimensions such as surveying and mapping figures, surveying and mapping cases, surveying and mapping history, surveying and mapping science and technology, and surveying and mapping applications. Starting from the goal of promoting the value, knowledge, ability, quality and personality of students, we designed corresponding ideological and political education knowledge points in the teaching links of surveying and mapping theory, traditional surveying and mapping methods, modern surveying and mapping technology, and civil engineering applications. Finally, we took Everest elevation survey and BeiDou navigation system construction as typical cases, to introduce the practice effect of ideological and political education reform.