diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3154677f..10f2cb18 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -158,6 +158,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-exercises"
+version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-pitfalls"
 version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b33c0d92..ad98fead 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ members = [
   "src/control-flow-basics",
   "src/error-handling",
   "src/concurrency/sync-exercises",
+  "src/concurrency/async-exercises",
   "src/concurrency/async-exercises/chat-async",
   "src/generics",
   "src/iterators",
diff --git a/src/concurrency/async-exercises/Cargo.toml b/src/concurrency/async-exercises/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8bd284a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/concurrency/async-exercises/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[package]
+name = "async-exercises"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+publish = false
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "dining-philosophers-async"
+path = "dining-philosophers.rs"
+
+[dependencies]
+tokio = { version = "1.36.0", features = ["full"] }