This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2017, held in Xi'an, China, in November 2017.  The 28 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk and two abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The conference focuses on all areas related to formal engineering methods, such as verification and validation, software engineering, formal specification and modeling, software security, and software reliability.