Aiming at the problem that the engineering teachers in universities attach importance to professional training, emphasize the acquirement of knowledge and skills, while neglect the educational work, the course “Basic theory of reinforced concrete structure” in civil engineering was taken as an example to conduct analysis. On the basis of analysis for the content and characteristics of this course, the principles and methods for ideological and political education were proposed. The construction of ideological and political education was introduced. The determinated purposes and implementation program of ideological and political education were summarized.