 Her career as a construction magnate took place largely within Taiwan's Continental Engineering Corporation, of which she has served as the chairman of the board.Nita Ing was expelled from Taipei American School for "rowdy behavior" and sent to a Massachusetts boarding school in the 1970s when she was a teenager.She then majored in economics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but was expelled from the University from setting up a fire protesting women inequality.