The proposal and integration of the concepts of emerging engineering education and curriculum ideological and political education have put forward new challenges and reformations to talent cultivation of colleges and universities. How to carry out curriculum ideological and political teaching reform under the background of emerging engineering education and cultivate talents with excellent ideological and political literacy is a vital task for colleges and universities. Taking the geotechnical investigation courses in China University of Geosciences as the study object, the curriculum ideological and political education goal is designed and four dimensions of ideological elements are explored combining with the disciplines characteristics and students’ cognitive requirements. A full-stage closed loop routing of curriculum ideological and political education is built, enriching the teaching content and material resources, and innovating the teaching methods and means. The teaching practices have expanded the depth, breadth and temperature of the course, realized the educational goal of combination of professional learning with value guidance, and formed a new exploration of ideological and political teaching mode of engineering specialized courses.