Emerging engineering education is a new educational model that arises under the background of new economy and new industry. In the cross spiral of theoretical teaching and practical teaching, it promotes the all-round development of students, permeates the cultivation of social responsibility, historical mission, engineering consciousness, practical ability, innovative spirit and craftsman spirit into every corner of engineering education in colleges and universities, and insists on cultivating socialist builders and successors as an important mission of engineering education in colleges and universities. As an important part of engineering education, practical teaching, like theoretical teaching, bears the responsibility and obligation of ideological and political education. University workers must accurately grasp the characteristics of practical teaching and the law of teaching and education, and take into account the two teaching functions of imparting knowledge and guiding value in practical courses. Aiming at the current situation and existing problems of curriculum-based ideological and political education in the practice teaching of port, waterway and coastal engineering major, Tongji University’s port, waterway and coastal engineering major, under the guidance of the requirements of the construction of emerging engineering education, carries out the overall design of the basic required courses and advanced courses in the professional practice teaching. It interprets the ideological and political connotation in the training program for the major of port, waterway and coastal engineering, refines the ideological and political elements and constructs the ideological and political teaching system in practical teaching, and establishes a multi-level quantitative evaluation system for the educational effect. Combined with the training plan and the basic task of cultivating emerging engineering talents, the analysis and discussion of specific cases is conducted, which is of great significance to the curriculum-based ideological and political system construction in the practical teaching of port, waterway and coastal engineering.