Based on an in-depth understanding of the significance and connotation of ideological and political courses, taking engineering management frontier as a pilot course, this paper discusses how to carry out ideological and political construction work for civil engineering management specialty. According to the main line of the course teaching, this paper constructs the ideological and political teaching system and content of the frontier course of engineering management, and puts forward the special teaching organization mode and means to facilitate the ideological and political content into the professional courses, so as to maximize the teaching efficiency of the course. With the questionnaire survey, analyzes the practical application effect of ideological and political construction of the engineering management frontier course. The results show that the expected goal of ideological and political teaching in the course of engineering management frontier has been achieved, which can provide experience for further ideological and political education teaching.