PORTLAND, Maine (WGAN) Students at the University of Southern Maine are helping to make personal protective equipment for healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.

According to our info partners at CBS 13, Professor Asheesh Lanba and his mechanical engineering department were asked to create PPE for workers at Maine Medical Center and other hospitals outside of Maine.

Lanba says two students volunteered to help, and they’ve been working to design the equipment using 3D printing, with plastic material supplied by Thermoformed Plastics of New England in Biddeford.

As of last week, the engineering department had shipped out 230 face shield prototypes all over country.