When his term as president ended in 1961, Shoda left Osaka University but suddenly returned as a professor the Faculty of Engineering Science founded in this year and was appointed to its first dean. After retirement from Osaka University, he worked still to improve the Japanese educational system in this field. He taught in Musashi University in Tokyo and became its President. In 1969 he was awarded the Order of Culture, and awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1974.