As the core course of environmental science and engineering, Water Pollution Control Engineering is an important position to practice ideological and political education. In order to give full play to the role of the course in "educating people", the ideological and political elements contained in the course are excavated from the aspects of life attitude, ideal and belief, family and country, professionalism, etc., and typical cases in the main teaching modules are designed and analyzed. Through the innovative integration of professional knowledge and ideological and political education in the classroom, new vitality is injected into teaching, the unity of "teaching" and "educating people" is realized, and the goal of "all‐round education" can be achieved.