Students of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering have access to a wide array of books and other literature materials available in the following libraries
1. JKML Library located at Main Campus Next 844 Building easily accessed through the gate at university way. Engineering books will be found on the first floor.
2. Department of Mechanical Engineering Library on the third floor of Mechanical Engineering building
The Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering is among the first departments set up in this university in 1956 in the then Royal Technical College. This college was later transformed and upgraded by an Act of the East African High Commission on 25 th June 1961 into the second University College in East Africa under the name "Royal College Nairobi".