Against the background of New Engineering education and the opening-up of higher education, the full English-taught mode in Sino-foreign cooperative programs brings both new opportunities and challenges for integrating ideological and political education into professional courses. Taking the Structural Analysis course in the civil engineering program of the University of Leeds Joint School, Southwest Jiaotong University as an example, this study proposes a pathway for integrating ideological and political education in the context of Sino-foreign collaborative teaching, focusing on four dimensions: the reconstruction of educational objectives, content organization, teaching methods, and assessment systems. Through comparative analysis of representative engineering cases, problem-driven learning, teamwork, and practical activities, value elements such as engineering ethics, social responsibility, and a sense of national commitment are embedded throughout the processes of knowledge instruction and competence development. Meanwhile, platforms such as Rain Classroom are employed to achieve the coordination of formative and summative assessment. Teaching practice feedback indicates that, without compromising professional rigor or international teaching standards, the proposed approach helps enhance students’ structural analysis competence, engineering responsibility awareness, and cross-cultural reflective ability, and may provide a useful reference for ideological and political education in similar Sino-foreign cooperative courses.