Abstract: The cultivation of talents under the background of"new engineering"needs to pay attention to multiple construction of engineering accomplishment, humanistic accomplishment and engineering theory.It is difficult for specialty curriculum reform to cultivate the"new engineering"compound talents through curriculum ideological and political construction.The key to the effective construction of ideological and political curriculum lies in the organic combination of ideological and political goals and curriculum content.Taking engineering thermodynamics as an example, this paper adopts measures such as teaching syllabus revision, teaching process reform and teaching discussion improvement to develop the curriculum ideological and political reform and design, which provides reference for systematic implementation of the curriculum.