Emerging engineering education is both a challenge and an opportunity for traditional civil engineering majors. The perfect integration of emerging engineering education and ideological and political elements in professional course teaching is crucial for development of universities and student cultivation. This article explores the teaching objectives and pain points of the soil mechanics course under the background of emerging engineering education, the requirements and principles of ideological and political education in the course, the design of the ideological and political education system in the course, and the ways to achieve ideological and political education in the course. It shows the current achievements of the teaching reform. China’s Heavenly, Earthly, Maritime, and Polar engineering projects have been incorporated into the teaching, including the Chang’e Project, Tianwen Series, tunnel excavation technology, deep well drilling projects, Crustal Exploration Project, marine oil and gas extraction projects, seabed mining projects, and the construction of the Antarctic Research Station. In teaching, the idea that the study of soil mechanics is closely related to the nation’s high-tech and cutting-edge industries is conveyed to students to enhance their interest in learning and boost their professional confidence. Each chapter of the soil mechanics course is meticulously designed to integrate ideological and political elements, seamlessly incorporating these elements while imparting theoretical knowledge of soil mechanics. It combines the example of the introduction course in Chapter 1 of soil mechanics to explain, aiming to achieve the combination of textbook theory and practice while imparting knowledge, with a focus on cultivating students’ national pride, sense of national responsibility, and the ideal and belief of not fearing difficulties in science and technology for the country.