Abstract:In the context of emerging engineering education, this study explores how ideological and political education in the teaching of Microbiological Examination of Food can serve the goal of fostering application-oriented specialized talents. The two main lines of integrating ideological and political education into teaching and connection of examination techniques were designed to run through the teaching of this course. A “4+4” project-based teaching mode was adopted, and blended teaching, case study, and flipped classroom were employed to improve the teaching methods. The achievement of the application-oriented course teaching goals was evaluated based on both learning effectiveness and teaching effectiveness. The teaching reform of this course fully mobilizes teachers and students to play their roles of teaching and learning and explores the application of multiple evaluation methods in improving the teaching practice.