This study presents the concepts of fluid mechanics in a fashion that allows the student to grasp abstract or difficult topics both physically and mathematically. Bridging the gap between civil and mechanical engineering courses, the text includes a wide variety of topics. Basic flow concepts and examples based on the Bernouilli Equation are presented early on in the text to motivate student interest and everyday examples of fluid mechanics are stressed throughout. High quality problems (ten per cent of which are computer problems) aid a better student understanding of the topic.