The campus of Southeast Missouri State University is quiet right now with students taking classes online and employees working from home. But if you listen closely, you'll hear the sound of 3D printers and a laser cutter hard at work in the Seabaugh Polytechnic Building producing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the local healthcare community.
We spoke with Brad Deken, chairperson of the Department of Engineering and Technology just as an order of masks was being produced to fill a request for the Butler County Health Department. He told us that so far they've produced around 2,300 masks since they began their work.
