Based on international engineering education certification standards, carrying out engineering specialty construction and reform, strengthening curriculum-based ideological and political education, and promoting the construction of first-class disciplines are one of the main tasks of colleges and universities. Based on the analysis of 12 graduation requirements of engineering education certification standard and the connotation of curriculum-based ideological and political education, it is found that curriculum-based ideological and political education can cover all the non-technical index requirements of engineering certification. It is proposed that curriculum-based ideological and political education needs top-level design. Taking civil engineering major of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an example, the overall top-level design is proposed from the perspective of professional talent training system. Combining the ideological and political objectives with the graduation requirements of certification standard in a planned way, the ideological and political objectives are implemented through the curriculum, so as to achieve the overall quality requirements of engineering talents training.