Integrating ideological and political elements into professional curriculum teaching is an inevitable trend and important direction of higher education curriculum reform. Taking civil engineering materials for the basic courses of civil engineering as an example, according to the characteristics of the course knowledge points are many and trivial, the engineering background is strong, and the experiment links are many, through in-depth digging of ideological and political elements, a suitable curriculum-based ideological and political design method is proposed, mainly including the introduction of major country projects to stimulate students' professional enthusiasm, practical engineering accidents to teach students engineering ethics, engineering cases as the teaching unit to cultivate students' pragmatic style, the second classroom to cultivate students' independent exploration ability and etc. In addition, based on the actual situation of the Department of Civil Engineering Materials, Southeast University, the practice path and evaluation method of curriculum ideological and political methods are introduced. The results show that this method can help stimulate students' professional enthusiasm and patriotism, cultivate social responsibility, professional morality, engineering ethics and craftsman spirit, and implement the concept of full-staff education, full-process education, and all-round education, which can provide references for curriculum ideological and political construction of similar majors.